This volume includes statements by Eliot himself, early reviews and criticism, and appraisals. The contributors include A. Alvarez, Curtis Bradford, Donald Davie, Denis Donoghue, R.W. Flint, Helen Gardner, D.W. Harding, R.N. Higinbotham, Hugh Kenner, F.R. Leavis, William F. Lynch, Marshall McLuhan, F.O. Matthiessen, George Orwell, David Perkins, Karl Shapiro, C.K. Stead, James Johnson Sweeney, and Morris Weitz. It is a companion to the Casebooks on The Waste Land and 'Prufrock', 'Gerontion', Ash Wednesday and Other Shorter Poems. -- Publisher's description.