The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual: Volume 4

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the new edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays. All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, or editor.

This Waste Land centenary volume of the Annual appears at a crossroads in Eliot studies. In recent years, editions of his prose, annotated poems, and letters have vastly expanded what we know about Eliot, his life, oeuvre, composition practices, and circle of acquaintances. Further, in January 2020, over one thousand letters by the poet to his muse Emily Hale were opened at Princeton University Library, where they had been sealed when Hale donated them in 1956. Articles re-examine the Waste Land in light of these new insights, as well as looking at drama and performance, and Eliot and Europe.

John D. Morgenstern, General Editor

Editorial Advisory Board:
Ronald Bush, University of Oxford
David E. Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago
Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews
Frances Dickey, University of Missouri
John Haffenden, University of Sheffield
Benjamin G. Lockerd, Grand Valley State University
Gail McDonald, Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabrielle McIntire, Queen’s University
Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
Christopher Ricks, Boston University
Ronald Schuchard, Emory University
Vincent Sherry, Washington University at St. Louis

John D. Morgenstern, General Editor.

Julia E. Daniel is Associate Professor of English Baylor University. She is the author of Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning and the co-editor of Modernism in the Green: Public Greens in Modern Literature and Culture.

Frances Dickey is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Modern Portrait Poem from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound and editor of Vol. 3 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: Literature, Politics, Belief, 1927-1929 and the Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts.