《劍橋文學指南：托·斯·艾略特》是《劍橋文學指南》叢書中的一種，收錄了20世紀80年代以來英美文學領域內極有建樹的學者的論文凡17篇，這些論文旁征博引，特具視角。有的將筆墨重點放在艾略特的詩上，談到葉芝、龐德，甚至但丁、莎士比亞等與艾略特的相似或差異；有的把艾略特的家族背景與他的創作聯繫起來，認為艾略特對於傳統的態度與其家族的宗教信仰以及與美國的關繫密不可分；有的論述了艾略特哲學思想的演變及布拉德利、拉塞爾等人對他的影響；有的視艾略特為社會批評家，並坦率地指出了他在這一方面的局限性。當然大部分論文都或多或少評述了艾略特的文風、布局、立意，以及他出名的對典故的運用。全書最後一篇是艾略特作品及相關評論作品的書目介紹，對於艾略特研究者無疑有著極大的參考價值。

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List of contributors
Preface
Chronology of Eliot’s life and works
List o f abbreviations
I Where is the real T. S. Eliot? or, The Life of the Poet
JAMES OLNEY
2 Eliot as a product of America
ERIC SIGG
3 Eliot as philosopher
RICHARD SHUSTERMAN
4 T. S. Eliot’s critical program
TIMOTHY MATERER
5 The social critic and his discontents
PETER DALE SCOTT
6 Religion, literature, and society in the work of T. S. Eliot
CLEO MCNELLY KEARNS
7 “England and nowhere”
ALAN MARSHALL
8 Early poems: from “Prufrock” to “Gerontion”
J. C. C. MAYS
9 Improper desire: reading The Waste Land
HARRIET DAVIDSON
10 Asb-Wednesday: a poetry of verification
JOHN KWAN-TERRY
11 Four Quartets: music, word, meaning and value
A. DAVID MOODY
12 Pereira and after: the cures of Eliot's theater
ROBIN GROVE
13 “Mature poets steal”: Eliot’s allusive practice
JAMES LONGENBACH
14 Eliot's impact on twentieth century Anglo-American poetry
CHARLES ALTIERI
15 Tradition and T. S. Eliot
JEAN-MICHEL RABATt
16 Eliot: Modernism, Postmodernism, and after
BERNARD SHARRATT
17 Eliot studies: a review and a select booklist
JEWEL SPEARS BROOKER
Index

Eliot addressed his new concern with the relation of literature to fields such as religion and politics in a Criterion essay in January 1926，“The Idea of a Literary Review.” The essay dismisses “pure literature” as a “chimera of sensation.” Even a literary journal should include material relating to general ideas in history， archaeology， anthropology， and the physical sciences.In 1926， his Criterion “Commentary” notes that the dispossessed artist， who finds the age‘s formlessness hampering his work， has been “driven to examining the elements in the situation - political， social， philo-sophical or religious - which frustrate his art.”8
This steadily increasing concern with the political， social， and religious issues of his age was driving Eliot himself toward a commitment that no merely literary tradition could inspire. Under the prodding of his former reacher Paul Elmer More in 1927， Eliot decided to “come out into the open” about the religious beliefs that were guiding his development （TCC， p. 15）. Thus in the preface to his brief volume For Lancelot Andrewes （1928）， sub- titled “Essays on Style and Order，” he declared his orientation as “classicist in Iiterature， royalist in politics， and anglo-catholic in religion” （p. ix）. All three stands affirmed his belief in traditional order， but the key one of course referred to his 1927 conversion to the Christian faith， which indeed gave him a principle of order “outside the self.”
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