The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot [Paperback]

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated inThe Waste LandandSweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with savages and sophisticates.

Well written and coherent...It will be of use to a variety of potential readers from undergraduates through faculty. There really is nothing else comparable to it in terms of its subject matter....Recommended for all academic libraries. --Choice

A powerful and stimulating book. --Times Higher Education Supplement

Crawford has much to offer...[he] has discovered extraordinary things...[and] is a gifted young scholar. --Ronald Bush,Modern Philology