(A) Critical reading of the selected poems of T. S. Eliot / by Manju Jain

Includes selected bibliography.

Introduction -- T. S. Elio's life and ideas -- Prufrock and observations -- The long song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on a windy night -- Poems 1920 -- Gerontion -- Burbank with a Baedeker : Bleistein with a Cigar -- Sweeney erect -- A cooking egg -- The hippopotamus -- Whisper of immortality -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service -- Sweeney among the nightingales -- The waste land -- Composition and publication -- The question of form -- Eliot's use of point of view -- The use of allusion -- Eliot's use of myth and anthropology -- 'The waste land' as an autobiographical poem and as a social and cultural critique -- The burial of the dead -- A game of chess -- The fire sermon -- Death by water -- What the thunder said -- The hollow men -- Ash-Wednesday -- Ariel poems -- Journey of the magi -- A song for simeon -- Animula -- Marina -- Choruses from 'The Rock'