T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination

How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? Sarah Kennedy''s study of Eliot''s poetics seeks out those images most striking in their resonance and recurrence: the ''sea-change'', the ''light invisible'' and the ''dark ghost''. She makes the case for these sustained metaphors as constitutive of the poet''s imagination and art. Eliot was haunted by recu...