Mastery and Escape
T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism
University of Massachusetts Press
These expert studies in some of the key figures behind Eliot's modernism - Mallarme, Frazer, F.H. Bradley, and T.E. Hulme - yield fresh insights which are brought to bear most fruitfully on his major poems Gerontion, The Waste Land and Four Quartets.