Introduction : Eliot the essayist -- Against (pure) transcendence : the essay and embodied truth -- Eliot, Montaigne, and the essay : the matter of personality -- Turning the essay : "tradition and the individual talent" -- The perfect critic and imperfect critics : the essay, criticism, and impurity -- Eliot's prose voice : the critical essayist as medium -- "Restoring/With a new verse the ancient rhyme" -- Four quartets : the poem as essay -- The impure art of Four quartets : where literature and philosophy meet -- Conclusion : faring forward, exploring still : participation instead of Puritan's progress.
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Eliot, T. S., (Thomas Stearns),1888-1965-- Criticism and interpretation.