| Links Why would you need more links when you're already here? Still, there are some useful things out there... Humorous yet astutely intelligent and very accessible discussion of Prufrock in dialogue style - not for landlubbers. The Cat, White Wine, and T.S. Eliot. Raj R. DeCoverley's article is a loose and anecdotal evaluation of T.S. Eliot's presence in the culture of the 1990s. Eiichi Hishikawa's T.S. Eliot page Contains a very good introduction to Eliot as a poet. It forced me to somewhat revise my own, because of the overlap and the better quality of Hishikawa's article. We even started with the same poem, Spleen. Last updated on 1 December 1997. Eliot at Project Bartleby, University of Columbia on-line library University of Columbia's on-line library contains the collection of essays 'The Sacred Wood', and a few of the poems. If you have the patience to install the necessary soundware, this page gives you the opportunity to listen to T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land. Melissa Sodeman discusses, through ten of Eliot's poems, the development of T.S. Eliot's form. Essay by Russel Kirk, who 'knew Eliot somewhat' in his own life, in which Kirk attempts to delineate as much Eliot's idealism as his politics. To quote from his conclusion, "his poetry tells us much about the human condition, in its splendor and its misery; and his prose makes us acutely aware of the permanent things." How Eliot does this is what Kirk explores in this excellent essay. The Possibility of a Poetic Drama Electronic version of Eliot's essay as it originally appeared in the Dial. http://www.cs.amherst.edu/~ccm/prufrock.html An amusingly webbed version of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" The San Antonio College LitWeb T.S. Eliot Page Only its short Bibliography is really new on this page, and this contains some small faults - at least, according to Akroyd, "Portrait" was written during 1910-11 and not 1915. Hardly worth mentioning, really. Discussion group. Not as good, scholarly, and active as Missouri's, but an accessible and useful place to go if you want to ask questions or see what sensible people have said about T.S. Eliot's poems in the past. This discussion group can be taken part in through a web-page rather than through email and because it is not as active as Missouri it is also easier to keep up. Home of the TSE on-line discussion list in Missouri. This is Greg Foster's site, where the TSE base is hosted and where you can search the list archives and see some of the most advanced rhetorical writing, which is nevertheless often put to little use. Some big names circle on this list and the occasional 'great' contribution makes up for all the rest. Another great recommendation on this site is the collection of short observations on T.S. Eliot's early poetry by Patricia Sloane. One of the more amusing pages on T.S. Eliot, with parodies &c. Not all the links work. Last (noticed) modification: 96-03-02. The usual material - poems up to and including The Hollow Men and a very brief biography. Voices & Visions Spotlight - T.S. Eliot Sparse and outdated, this is nevertheless one of the few sites which contains a link to "The Waste Land" audio files. University of Texas T.S. Eliot Some analytical pieces and a bibliography. Mike Green's pages on The Waste Land are, as he says it, something of a cliche - especially for me, as I had the same idea now three years ago and put it to practice less than a year later; but since my pages are still in the process of conversion (as they have been for a long time) to the new layout I came up with when I worked on the notes to "Burbank with a Baedeker" (also still in progress but nevertheless quite advanced), the old layout is due to size considerations currently no longer on-line. Which makes Mike's page somewhat invaluable, and as far as I know, unique. He also has quite a number of links. In short, a good page, though of course limited to The Waste Land. Raymond Camden's site is one of the better pages on this list, although rather shallow. It is mentioned, among others, by the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia. Contains poems, links (to which this page is indebted), works, a timeline, a handsome picture, a review of "Tom and Viv", and brief biographical info. Last update April 25, 1998.
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