Description: A concise and clear guide to the complexities of T.S.Eliot's poetry, with easy to follow structure and chapters on Eliot's major texts, all in chronological order.
Brief description: Steve Ellis is Professor of English at the University of Birmingham, UK and is also a poet and translator. His publications include The English Eliot (Routledge, 1991), Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (OUP, 2005) and Virginia Woolf and the Victorians (CUP 2007).
Review Quotes: "... offers a fresh approach to writing an introductory guide. Instead of a sequential account of Eliot's life and work, [Ellis] reads the poetry through Eliot's prose." --The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90