T. S. EliotThe twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T. S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer forbiddingly learned, maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration, prize winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot an exacting anti romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the