One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Arthur Mizener, Wyndham Lewis, Hugh Kenner, R. P. Blackmur, Elizabeth Sewell, S. Musgrove, George L. K. Morris, F. R. Leavis, D. W. Harding, Allen Tate, Ezra Pound, William Empson, John Peter, Denis Donoghue, and Donald Davie--all dealing with the biography and literary work of T. S. Eliot. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Topics covered include Eliot's early London environment, his "irregular metaphysics," Lewis Carroll and T. S. Eliot as nonsense poets, Eliot and Tennyson, "The Waste Land," Eliot's style, his merit, his later poetry, and "T. S. Eliot: The End of an Era." A chronology of important dates in Eliot's life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a bibliography of works on Eliot complete the volume. (LL)