Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ELIOT'S APPRENTICESHIP: THE HARVARD POEMS -- III. THE PRUFROCK SYNDROME: A STUDY OF NEUROSIS AND ITS POETIC INSTRUMENTATION -- IV. A DUAL PORTRAIT OP THE SPEAKER AND HIS LADY -- V. SOME PRELUDES AND A RHAPSODY, OR MUSIC ON A SILENT KEYBOARD -- VI. THE OXFORD POEMS, "CONVERSATION GALANTE", "LA FIGLIA CHE PIANGE", AND THE SATIRIC QUATRAINS -- VII. "GERONTION", OR PROLOGUE TO THE WASTE LAND -- VIII. THE WASTE LAND -- IX. "THE HOLLOW MEN", OR EPILOGUE TO THE WASTE LAND -- X. ASH-WEDNESDAY, OR THE ORCHESTRATION OF PENITENCE -- XI. THE INTERMEDIATE PHASE: AN EXPERIMENTAL INTERLUDE -- XII. THE FOUR QUARTETS -- XIII. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX