LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PART ONE：THE WRITER AND HIS SETTING
Chronological table
1 Briefly，the essentials
St Louis
Harvard and New England
Paris
Harvard again
England
First marriage
The Criterion and The Waste Land
Conversion
Separation
Elio through the thirties
War and its consequences
Second marriage：life as return
2 The religious quest
Eliot and religion
Puritan concerns
Unitarian concerns
The claims of the primitive：Sweeney and the animals
Mysticism
Idealism
Facts and action：towards conversion
Religion and society：Action Francaise
Conversion and Ash-Wednesday
Puns and paradoxes
The city and the desert
3 Eliot and the traditions of poetry
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Jules Laforgue
Charles Baudelaire
Jacobeans and Metaphysicals
Virgil
Dantc
Ezra Pound
W.B.Yeats
The poets of the thirties
The drama
4 Eliot and the traditions of criticism
PART TWO：CRITICAL SURVEY
5 A critical examination of some poetry
PART THREE：REFERENCE SECTION
INDICES