T. S. Eliot

Written by M.C. Bradbrook and published by Longmans, Green & Co., this study examines T.S. Eliot's poetic evolution and intellectual influences within the context of modernist literature. Bradbrook was a distinguished literary scholar known for her expertise in both medieval and modern literature.

The book traces Eliot's development from his early experimental poems through his religious conversion and later dramatic works. Bradbrook examines Eliot's influences, including French symbolist poetry, metaphysical poets, and Eastern philosophy, while analyzing his contribution to modernist poetics. The study places Eliot's work within broader contexts of 20th-century cultural and intellectual history.

This critical study helped establish Eliot's reputation as a major modernist poet and contributed to scholarly understanding of his complex artistic development. Bradbrook's analysis influenced subsequent Eliot criticism and helped readers appreciate the intellectual sophistication underlying his poetry. The work demonstrated how traditional literary scholarship could engage productively with experimental modernist texts.

M.C. Bradbrook was one of the first women to achieve prominence in academic literary criticism. Her work on Eliot appeared during a period when his influence on modern poetry was becoming widely recognized. The study's publication by Longmans, Green & Co. placed it within a prestigious series of literary criticism that helped define modern literary studies.