The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot - Volume 2 - The Perfect Critic - 1919–1926

Sep 20, 2026

A critical-edition volume presenting T. S. Eliot’s prose from 1919–1926, edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard. The front matter details editorial apparatus, copyright and publication information, ISBN identifiers, and a structured CONTENTS section. It organizes writings by year, including introductions, editorial procedures, acknowledgments, and lists of abbreviations and illustrations, followed by individual reviews, essays, letters, and literary-critical pieces such as “The Perfect Critic.”

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The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926: Introduction

Editorial Procedures and Principles

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

1919

Marivaux

The New Elizabethans and the Old

The Post-Georgians

American Literature

A Romantic Aristocrat

Kipling Redivivus

A Sceptical Patrician

Beyle and Balzac

Criticism in England

The Education of Taste

Reflections on Contemporary Poetry [IV]

A Foreign Mind

The Romantic Generation, If It Existed

“Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama

Was There a Scottish Literature?

Christopher Marlowe

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Swinburne as Critic

Hamlet

Murmuring of Innumerable Bees

Humanist, Artist, and Scientist

War-paint and Feathers

The Method of Mr. Pound

Our Inaccessible Heritage

Mr. Pound and His Poetry

Ben Jonson

The Preacher as Artist

The Duchess of Malfi at the Lyric

The Local Flavour

The Complete prose of T. S. Eliot The Critical Edition volume 2 The Perfect Critic 1919–1926 edited by ANTHONY CUDA & 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 2: The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926 Edited by ANTHONY CUDA 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 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 [www.press.jhu.edu](www.press.jhu.edu) ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1295-5 ISBN-10: 1-4214-1295-0 CONTENTS The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926: Introduction xiii Editorial Procedures and Principles xliii Acknowledgments li List of Abbreviations lv List of Illustrations lix 1919 Marivaux 1 The New Elizabethans and the Old. A review of The New Elizabethans: A First Selection of the Lives of Young Men Who Have Fallen in the Great War, by E. B. Osborn 10 The Post-Georgians. A review of Wheels: A Third Cycle, ed. Edith Sitwell 16 American Literature. A review of A History ofAmerican Literature, vol. II, ed. William P. Trent et al. 21 A Romantic Aristocrat 26 Kipling Redivivus. A review of The Years Between, by Rudyard Kipling 33 Kipling Redivivus. To the Editor of The Athenaeum 40 A Sceptical Patrician. A review of The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography 41 Beyle and Balzac. A review of A History of the French Novel, to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, vol. II, by George Saintsbury 48 Criticism in England. A review of Old and New Masters, by Robert Lynd 54 The Education of Taste. A review of English Literature during the Last Half-Century, by J. W. Cunliffe 60 Reflections on Contemporary Poetry [IV]. A review of Naked Warriors, by Herbert Read; The Charnel Rose, Senlin: A Biography, and Other Poems, by Conrad Aiken; and vingt-cinq poèmes, by Tristan Tzara 66 vi ] CONTENTS A Foreign Mind. A review of The Cutting of anAgate, by W. B. Yeats 72 The Romantic Generation, If It Existed. A review of Currents and Eddies in the English Romantic Generation, by Frederick E. Pierce 77 “Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama 83 Was There a Scottish Literature? A review of Scottish Literature: Character and Influence, by G. Gregory Smith 92 Christopher Marlowe 97 Tradition and the Individual Talent 105 Swinburne as Critic 115 Hamlet 122 Murmuring of Innumerable Bees. An unsigned review of Coterie: An Illustrated Quarterly, 2 129 Humanist, Artist, and Scientist. A review of La Pensée italienne au XVIe siècle et le courant libertin andL’Éthique de Giordano Bruno et le deuxième dialogue du Spaccio, by J.-Roger Charbonnel 132 War-paint and Feathers. A review of The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chantsfrom the Indians of North America, ed. George W. Cronyn 137 The Method of Mr. Pound. A review of Quia Pauper Amavi, by Ezra Pound 141 Our Inaccessible Heritage. To the Editor of The Athenaeum 147 Mr. Pound and His Poetry. To the Editor of The Athenaeum 149 Ben Jonson 150 The Preacher as Artist. A review of Donne’s Sermons: Selected Passages, ed. Logan Pearsall Smith 165 The Duchess of Malfi at the Lyric: and Poetic Drama 170 The Local Flavour 176 1920 Swinburne as Poet 181 William Blake 187 The Phoenix Society. To the Editor of The Athenaeum 193 Euripides and Professor Murray 195 A Brief Treatise on the Criticism of Poetry 202 Modern Tendencies in Poetry 212 CONTENTS [ vii Dante 226 The Criticism of Poetry. To the Editor of the TLS 238 The Poetic Drama. A review of Cinnamon and Angelica: A Play, by John Middleton Murry 240 Philip Massinger 244 Artists and Men of Genius. To the Editor of The Athenaeum 260

FAQs

What time span does this volume cover?

Volume 2 covers T. S. Eliot’s prose from 1919 to 1926, presented under the title “The Perfect Critic.”

Who edited the critical edition for this volume?

The volume is edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard, with Ronald Schuchard listed as General Editor.

What kinds of items are listed in the contents?

The contents include an introduction and editorial procedures, acknowledgments, lists of abbreviations and illustrations, and then numerous year-organized reviews, essays, and letters.

Sep 20, 2026

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