Why 4,000 pages of T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism is not enough

The Collected Prose: Volume I, 1905-1928; Volume II, 1929-1934; Volume III, 1935-1950; Volume IV 1951-1960 T.S. Eliot, edited by Archie Burnett

Faber, 50

This is Alice B. Toklas, ventriloquised by her partner, Gertrude Stein:

I must say that only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell within me rang and I was not mistaken, and I may say in each case it was before there was any general recognition of the quality of genius in them.

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TaggedElizabethan dramatists, Essays, Hamlet, Literary criticism, Othello, Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, The Waste Land

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Why 4,000 pages of T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism is not enough

Faber’s text-only, strictly chronological four-volume edition of the prose is fatally purist – though admittedly cheaper than the eight-volume Johns Hopkins version

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