Reflecting the surge of critical interest in Eliot renewed in recent years,A Companion to T.S. Eliotintroduces the 'new' Eliot to readers and educators by examining the full body of his works and career. Leading scholars in the field provide a fresh and fully comprehensive collection of contextual and critical essays on his life and achievement.It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and careerIt explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophicalIt charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990sIt provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century