T. S. Eliot, Author, Lawrence Rainey, Editor Yale University Press $37 (304p) ISBN 978-0-300-09743-6
Eliot's own notes to his masterpiece were described by Eliot himself, as Rainey here relates, as padding that took on a life of its own as the controversies surrounding the poem took off in the '20s. That's just one of the tidbits in this terrific...
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Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton. Yale Univ., $45 (912p) ISBN 978-0-300-17645-2
Selected and edited by his wife, with expert help from Haughton (The Poetry of Derek Mahon), this capacious edition includes letters discovered since the original publication in 1988 that fill important gaps in the literary record, with minor...
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Edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton. Yale Univ., $45 (920p) ISBN 978-0-300-17686-5
Covering a shorter period than Volume One, this second installment spans two years of "crisis and consolidation, of severe domestic collapse and hard-won professional recovery." No longer a striving poet and burgeoning critic, a more mature Eliot...
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Edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden. Yale Univ., $50 (992p) ISBN 978-0-300-18723-6
Spanning only two years, this volume of Eliot’s correspondence is prodigious in all things, not least intellect, beauty, personality, and size. Only four years after the publication of The Wasteland, the increasingly more famous Eliot is pulled in...
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T. S. Eliot, Author, Valerie Eliot, Editor, Valerie Eliot, Introduction by Harvest Books $31 (704p) ISBN 978-0-15-650850-6
This controversial volume of letters covers the period from Eliot's childhood in St. Louis, Mo., until the end of 1922, when he had settled permanently in England, married and published ``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'' and ``The Waste Land.''
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T. S. Eliot, Author, Axel Scheffler, Illustrator , illus. by Axel Scheffler. Harcourt $16 (64p) ISBN 978-0-547-24827-1
This lively and accessible edition of Eliot's classic homage to felines rounds up the familiar gang, with characters like the sprightly Jellicle Cats, who dance in chorus lines on moonlit rooftops, and the vicious Great Rumpuscat, whose...
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T. S. Eliot, Author, Louise Howton, Editor, Errol Le Cain, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-15-256230-4
Published posthumously, Le Cain's ( Growltiger's Last Stand & Other Poems ) last book proves a rousing finale. Mr. Mistoffelees, the magical conjuring cat, is among the liveliest and most winsome of all of Eliot's felines. As rendered here, he is a...
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T. S. Eliot, Author, Errol Le Cain, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-42811-2
As depicted in Le Cain's rollicking paintings, a gaggle of farcical felines (and a few pesky pekes) highlights this collection by the distinguished poet. Ages 3-up. (Apr.)
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T. S. Eliot, Author, Ronald Schuchard, Editor Mariner Books $15 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-600256-1
Consisting of 11 lectures Eliot delivered at universities, this collection explores his views on the relation of thought to feeling in verse. (Apr.)
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