T.S. Eliot

This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.S. Eliot’s oeuvre. Previously unacknowledged, Eliot’s concern with ageing can now be seen as a significant element in his work, resonating throughout his poetry, his literary criticism and his dramas.Beginning with the works Eliot is known to have read as a youth, and examining his first unpublished poems, the boo...