Volume 23, Number 8 · May 13, 1976

The Struggles of T.S. Eliot

By Michael Wood
The Overwhelming Question: A Study of the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
by Balachandra Rajan

University of Toronto Press, 153 pp., $10.00

Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pp., $4.95 (paper)

The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change
by Frank Kermode

Viking, 141 pp., $7.95

T. S. Eliot
by Stephen Spender

Viking (Modern Masters Series), 222 pp., $8.95

'The progress of the artist,' Eliot wrote in 1919, 'is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.' Some thirteen years later, he seemed to modify his view:



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