A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot

by B.C. Southam

Mr. Southam's Guide is designed to help the reader of T.S.
Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and explaining the wide
and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references:
literary, factual and historical. For the first time this important selection of Eliot's work has been provided with systematic poem-by-poem notes.
'Both essay and notes have been intelligently done, and are
likely to be very useful to readers of all kinds.' The Times
Literary Supplement

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[l · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted a short refresher on the poems and I suppose this provided that though with these kinds of things you always have to side-eye some of the choices of the writer (i.e. explaining Juliet's tomb while leaving some more obscure stuff unannotated....)