The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot - Volume 1 - Apprentice Years 1905-1918

Sep 20, 2026

Comprehensive critical edition gathering T. S. Eliot’s prose across apprentice, graduate, and early journalism years. Volume 1 covers 1905–1918, organizing juvenilia, undergraduate writing, Harvard and Oxford essays, doctoral research, and periodical reviews. The table of contents details dates, institutional contexts, and article or essay titles, including multiple bracketed works and thematic studies spanning ethics, metaphysics, logic, objects, ritual interpretation, and literary criticism. Editorial material, abbreviations, and illustrative lists support scholarly navigation.

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Reading Time22 h 55 min

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CONTENTS

General Editorial Introduction

Apprentice Years, 1905-1918

Part I: Juvenilia and Undergraduate Writing

Part II: Graduate Essays and Ph.D. Thesis

Part III: Early Journalism: Reviews and Essays

The Complete prose of T. S. Eliot The Critical Edition volume 1 Apprentice Years 1905–1918 edited by jewel spears brooker & Ronald Schuchard Q R The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot Ronald Schuchard, General Editor The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot the critical edition Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 1905–1918 Edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard Baltimore faber andfaber london This book was brought to publication with the assistance of the Hodson Trust. Eliot Prose © Estate of TS Eliot 2014 Editorial Apparatus © Faber and Faber Ltd and the Johns Hopkins University Press 2014 All rights reserved. Published 2014 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 [www.press.jhu.edu](www.press.jhu.edu) ISBN-13 978-1-4214-1294-8 ISBN-10 1-4214-1294-2 CONTENTS General Editorial Introduction xiii Apprentice Years, 1905-1918: Introduction xxvii Acknowledgments lxiii List of Abbreviations lxvii List of Illustrations lxxi Part I:Juvenilia and Undergraduate Writing 1905: Smith Academy, St. Louis The Birds of Prey 3 A Tale ofa Whale 4 TheManWhoWasKing 6 1909: Harvard University The Defects of Kipling 8 Some of Mr. Kipling’s Defects 15 A review of The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-Day America, by Van Wyck Brooks 18 The Point of View 20 Gentlemen and Seamen 21 A review of Egoists, A Book of Supermen, by James Huneker 24 Part II: Graduate Essays and Ph.D. Thesis 1912-13: Harvard University Report on the Kantian Categories 29 Report on the Relation of Kant’s Criticism to Agnosticism 40 Report on the Ethics of Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason 49 [Degrees of Reality] 57 1913-14: Harvard University [Inconsistencies in Bergson’s Idealism] 67 [The Relationship between Politics and Metaphysics] 90 The Interpretation of Primitive Ritual 106 Communication and Inspection 120 vi ] CONTENTS Description and Explanation 122 Cause as ideal construction 126 Suggestions toward a Theory of Objects 130 [The Ethics of Satisfaction in Tucker’s The Light of Nature Pursued] 136 [Self-realisation and Pleasure in the Ethics of Green and Sidgwick] 147 1914-15: Merton College, Oxford University [Objects: Content, Objectivity, and Existence] 165 [Objects: Real, Unreal, Ideal, and Imaginary] 169 [Finite Centres and Points of View] 174 [The Privacy of Points of View] 178 [Definition and Judgment in Bradley and his Critics] 183 The validity of artificial distinctions 187 [Eἷδoς in the Early Socratic and Late Platonic Dialogues] 193 The Relativity of the Moral Judgment 197 [Thought and Reality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics] 216 [Matter and Form in Aristotle’s Metaphysics] 220 [Causality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics] 227 [Change in Aristotle’s Degeneratione et corruptione] 231 1915-16: Doctoral Dissertation Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy ofF. H. Bradley 238 Part III: Early Journalism: Reviews and Essays 1915 What India Is Thinking About To-day. An unsigned omnibus review often books on India 389 1916 Areview of Theism and Humanism, by Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour 394 A review of The Philosophy of Nietzsche, by A. Wolf 401 Thomas Hardy. A review of Thomas Hardy: A Study of the Wessex Novels, by H. C. Duffin 404 An American Critic. An unsigned review of Aristocracy and Justice, by Paul Elmer More 406 An unsigned review of The French Renascence, by Charles Sarolea 409 CONTENTS [ vii Mr. Doughty’s Epic. An unsigned review of The Titans, by Charles M. Doughty 410 Mr. Leacock Serious. A review of Essays and Literary Studies, by Stephen Leacock 412 An unsigned review of Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation as a Theory of Social Progress, by L. M. Bristol 415 An unsigned first review of Group Theories of Religion and the Individual, by Clement C. J. Webb 417 Durkheim. An unsigned first review of The Elementary Forms of the Religio

FAQs

Volume 1 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot covers which years and overall scope?

It covers the apprentice years from 1905 to 1918, collecting prose including juvenilia, undergraduate writing, graduate essays and a doctoral dissertation, and early journalism in the form of reviews and essays.

How is the material in this volume organized?

The contents are divided into Part I (Juvenilia and Undergraduate Writing), Part II (Graduate Essays and Ph.D. Thesis), and Part III (Early Journalism: Reviews and Essays), with entries grouped by year and institutional context where applicable.

What kinds of works appear in the volume’s reviews and essays section?

The reviews and essays include literary and philosophical review pieces targeting specific authors and books, along with lecture-course syllabi and additional prose items listed for later years within 1915–1917.

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