Description: Explores Eliot's many-sided engagements with painting, sculpture, architecture, music, drama, music hall and cinema, recorded sound, and dance, drawing on newly available sources, archival material, and interart connections.
Brief description: Frances Dickey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. She is President of the T. S. Eliot Society and the author of The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound (2012).
Review Quotes: The essays assembled in T. S. Eliot and the Arts are genuinely groundbreaking: Eliot's debt to Asian art, whether Chinese, Japanese, or Indian, his astonishingly varied musical taste, ranging from Wagner to Louis Armstrong, and his sophistication vis-à-vis the then new media of radio and phonography-- these are documented impressively in this volume, presenting us with an Eliot we've never quite known before.--Marjorie Perloff