Selected Essays 1917–1932

by T. S. Eliot

  • Year 1932
  • Type Essay
  • Genre literary criticism
  • Tradition Anglican
  • Original language English

For For readers who want Eliot's criticism in one volume rather than the separate books. Not for those seeking his poetry or devotional writing.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
5 of 5 essential
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

Eliot's own selection of his criticism to 1932, on Elizabethan drama, the metaphysical poets, Dante, Baudelaire and religion. The standard one-volume Eliot criticism.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 3 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

The standard collection of Eliot's critical prose, published by Faber and Faber in 1932 and in New York by Harcourt, Brace the same year, and later enlarged. It gathers the essays he wished to keep from The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, For Lancelot Andrewes, Dante and his separately published pamphlets, including Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Metaphysical Poets and Thoughts After Lambeth, together with essays never before collected. It is the book through which most readers have known Eliot's criticism. Its contents overlap the separately published books listed here.

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