2021 Annual Bibliography

compiled by Joshua Richards

Primary Texts

The Letters of T. S. Eliot. Vol 9. Edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden. Faber, 2021. 

Scholarly Books

Rzepa, Joanna. Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czesław Miłosz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Stayer, Jayme. Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March Hare. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

Scholarly Articles

Aers, David, and Thomas Pfau. “Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 70, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 263-75.

Ahmed, Rizwan Saeed, and Akhtar Aziz. “Modernist Sense of the End and Postmodernist Illusion of the End.” Philosophy & Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, Apr. 2021

Albayrak, Gökhan. “Conflict and Contact: From John Donne’s ‘Dialogue of One’ to T. S. Eliot’s Monologue.” Celal Bayar University Journal of Social Sciences / Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, vol. 19, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 1–12. 

Alhusami, Mohammed Abdullah Abduldaim Hizabr. “Tradition Versus Modernity in Laila al-Juhani’s The Waste Paradise: An Intertextual Approach.” Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 11, no. 10, Oct. 2021, pp. 1197ff. 

Alpaslan, Nimet. “T. S. Eliot’s Theory of the Objective Correlative as a Framework for the Poem ‘Yağmur Kaçaği’ by Attila İlhan.” International Journal of Turcologia, vol. 16, no. 31, Spring 2021, pp. 49–57. 

Araujo, Anderson. “After Many Gods: T. S. Eliot and the Nagging Question of Ezra Pound’s Beliefs.” Renascence, vol. 73, no. 1, Winter 2021, pp. 13–28. 

Archambeau, Robert. “Wide-Angle Poetry.” Hudson Review, vol. 73, no. 4, Jan. 2021, pp. 671–78.

Balavage, Elysia. “Illumination, Transformation, and Nihilism: T. S. Eliot’s Empty Spaces.”  Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 44, no. 3, 2021, pp. 35–48. 

Bartczak, Kacper. “The Paradigm of the Void: Louise Glück’s Post-Confessional Deadlock.” Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 15, 2021, pp. 69-87,205.

Bhatta, Damaru Chandra. “Water as a Symbol of ‘Shantih’ in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: An Upanishadic Reading.” Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 11, no. 7, July 2021, pp. 821ff. 

Blevins, Jeffrey. “Setting The Waste Land in Order.” Twentieth Century Literature , vol. 67, no. 4, Dec. 2021, pp. 1–24. 

Botîlcă, Cristina-Mihaela. “Retranslation as a Necessity for the 21st Century Reader. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats – T. S. Eliot.” Philologica Jassyensia, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 143–52.

Brooker, Jewel Spears. “Eliot’s Ghost Story: Reflections on His Letters to Emily Hale.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 147-50. 

—. “T. S. Eliot in Ecstasy: Feeling, Reason, Mysticism.” Christianity & Literature, vol. 70, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 22–27.

Brown, Alistair M. “The Accounting Meta-Metaphor of ‘The Hollow Men’ by T. S. Eliot.” Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, vol. 18, no. 1, 2021, pp. 26-52.

Budziak, Anna. “On the Parenthesis in T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Cultivation of Christmas Trees’.” Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism, vol. 71, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 46-65.

Carbajosa Palmero, Natalia. “Mythical Fear and Redemption in T. S. Eliot’s Verse Drama: The Family Reunion.” Epos, no. 37, 2021, pp. 35-47.

Chandran, K. Narayana. “Possible Allusion to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 in East Coker IV.” Notes & Queries, vol. 68, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 356–57.

—. “Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive.’” Notes & Queries, vol. 68, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 357–58. 

Christensen, Karen. “The Love of a Good Woman.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 143-47. 

Clarke, Tim. “Morbid Vitalism: Death, Decadence, and Spinozism in Barnes’s Nightwood.”  Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 67, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 163-190. 

Crace, Benjamin D. “An Incarnational Poetic at Play in T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 86, no. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 18–38.

—. “T. S. Eliot as a Pentecostal Playwright: Towards a Pneumatic Poetic.” Christianity & Literature, vol. 70, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 123–41. 

Crane, Ryan. “Cormac McCarthy’s American Waste Land: The Golden Bough, T. S. Eliot, and Mythic Violence in Blood Meridian.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 2021, pp. 85–99.

Crowley, Ronan, Frances Dickey, Joshua Kotin, and Robert Spoo. “T. S. Eliot’s Enclosures to Emily Hale: Three Uncollected James Joyce Letters.” James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 3, 2021, pp. 343–53.

Cuda, Anthony. “Reinventing Modernism: Randall Jarrell’s Unwritten Essay on T. S. Eliot.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, vol. 82, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 81–117. 

—. “Unbuttoned and Unimportant: Tidbits from the Archive.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 151-54. 

Daniel, Julia. “Wind, Rock, Flower, Glass: The Family Reunion as Ecodrama.” Special Forum: Eliot and the Biological, Ed. Julia Daniel. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 69-92.

Däumer, Elisabeth, and Dominic Meo. “T. S. Eliot Bibliography 2017.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, vol. 3, 2021, pp. 241–50.

de Meric, Natasha. “‘Humankind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality’ (T.S Eliot) The Dilemma of Remembering Forgotten Time.” Psychodynamic Practice, vol. 27, no. 4, Nov. 2021, pp. 417–29.

Diaper, Jeremy. “‘Life of the Soil’: T. S. Eliot and Organicism.” Special Forum: Eliot and the Biological, Ed. Julia Daniel. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 47-68. 

Dickey, Frances. “Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale and His Personal Theory of Poetry.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2020, pp. 123-29.

—. “‘Hydraulic’: The Company and Its Archive.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 235-40.

—. “T. S. Eliot and the Color Line of St. Louis.” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, vol. 5, no. 4, Mar. 2021. 

Dickey, Frances, and John Whittier-Ferguson. “Joint Property, Divided Correspondents: The T. S. Eliot-Emily Hale Letters.” Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, vol. 5, no. 4, Jan. 2021. 

Diepeveen, Leonard. “T. S. Eliot, Fraud.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 23-46.

Dowson, Jane. “Postsecularity and the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy.” Sophia, vol. 60, no. 3, 2021, pp. 735-745

During, Simon. “Exciting Discipline.” Australian Humanities Review, no. 68, 2021, pp. 1.

Eichholz, Patrick. “Dadaism and Classicism in The Waste Land.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 67, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 269-292. 

Esposito, Thomas. “Echoes of Ecclesiastes in the Poetry and Plays of T. S. Eliot.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021, pp. 98–123. 

Feldman, Alex. “‘With His Own Generation in His Bones’: Claude C. H. Williamson and the Plagiarism of T. S. Eliot’s Shakespeare Criticism.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 34, no. 4, Oct. 2021, pp. 297–307. 

Fitzgerald, Sara. “Emily Hale: The Beginning of All Our Exploring.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 161-70.

—. “Searching for Emily Hale.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 133-40. 

Gillard, Barry. “Lancelot Andrewes and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Magi’.” Quadrant, vol. 65, no. 12, Dec. 2021, pp. 99–101. 

Goldman, David P. “T. S. Eliot and the Jews: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life.” First Things, 2021, pp. 1-9

Gordon, Lyndall. “Letters to a T. S. Eliot Fan.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 129-32. 

Ha, Sha. “Plague and Literature in Western Europe, from Giovanni Boccaccio to Albert Camus.” International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1-7

Hale, Emily. “In Her Own Words: Emily Hale’s Introduction to T. S. Eliot’s Letters.” Ed. Sara Fitzgerald and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 1-10. 

Hamiti, Muhamet, and Lindita Tahiri. “Anglo-American and French Literary Studies and Their Impact on Kosovo/Albanian Scholarship.” Forum for World Literature Studies, vol. 13, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 421ff. 

Hargrove, Nancy D. “T. S. Eliot at Merton College, the University of Oxford: 1914-1915.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 86, no. 3, 2021, pp. 110–20. 

Hawkes, David. “Modernism, Inflation and the Gold Standard in T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 16, no. 3, Aug. 2021, pp. 316–39. 

Henderson, Archie, and Christopher McVey. “Pound and Eliot.” American Literary Scholarship, vol. 2019, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 111–31. 

Higgins, Sørina. “[Re]cycled Fragments: The End of Sweeney Agonistes.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 181-214. 

Keena, Justin. “The Reception of C. S. Lewis’s A Preface to Paradise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015.” Milton Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 1–38. 

Kim, Seonghoon, et al. “Implications of Vocabulary Density for Poetry: Reading T. S. Eliot’s Poetry through Computational Methods.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 371–82.

Kurlberg, Jonas. “Clashes Over Transcendence: T. S. Eliot and Karl Mannheim Through the Lens of Programmatic Modernism.” Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism,’ edited by Matthew Feldman et al., Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 117–34. 

Llorens-Cubedo, Dídac. “Man of the Theatre: Stage Performances of T. S. Eliot’s Work in Spain (1949–2016).” Neophilologus, vol. 105, no. 4, Dec. 2021, pp. 555–71.

Majak, Aleksandra. “Eliot’s (Im)personality and Voices of Polish Modernism.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 215-34. 

Matek, Ljubica. “Pjesme o Mačkama Za Djecu i Odrasle: T. S. Eliot i Pitanje Identiteta” [Poems about Cats for Children and Adults: T.S. Eliot and Identity].  Libri & Liberi, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 7–24. 

Note: English title provided by the author

Mcgann, Jerome. “Suffering, Sacred, or Free: Romantic Revolutions of the Word, with Special Reference to Byron.” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 60, no. 2, summer 2021, pp. 175ff. 

McIntire, Gabrielle. “Love’s Errors and Effacements: T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale.” First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 155-60. 

Moitra, Samridhya. “Emerson’s “Quotation and Originality”: A Reconciliation between Tradition and Individuality; and A Harbinger of Intertextuality.” Agathos, vol. 12, no. 2, 2021, pp. 131-141

al Mubaddel, Arwa F. “‘The Typist Home at Teatime’ : Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot’s Role in Shaping T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922).” Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History, edited by Juliana Dresvina, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 

Query, Patrick. “Democracy, Punishment, Banality: Anti-Fascism 1940-2020.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 171-80.

Richards, Joshua. “T. S. Eliot Bibliography 2019.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, vol. 3, 2021, pp. 259–64.

Rizwan, Saeed A., and Aziz Akhtar. “Modernist Sense of the End and Postmodernist Illusion of the End.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, pp. 121-137

Rudd, Anthony. “Joy as Presence: Reflections on Kierkegaard and Temporality.” Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 49, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 412–30.

Rulo, Kevin. “Eliot and Skin.” Special Forum: Eliot and the Biological, ed. Julia Daniel. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 93-112.

Patterson, Anita. “‘Projections in the Haiku Manner:’ Richards Wright, T. S. Eliot, and Transpacific Modernism.” The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. University Press, 2021, pp. 11-22. 

Palmer, William C. “‘A Strong, Brown God’: T. S. Eliot’s Mississippi River Exploration of the White Atlantic.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, Mar. 2021, pp. 24–37.

Pérez Alonso, Leticia. “T. S. Eliot and the Question of the Will in The Waste Land.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 23, no. 1, 2021, pp. 149–67. 

Phipps, Jake. “Antithetical Minds: Eliot’s Byron and Byron’s Burns.” Byron Journal, vol. 49, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 15ff.

Semeiks, Jonna G. “Loss and Spring.” Confrontation, no. 125, spring 2021, pp. 9ff. 

Smart, John. “Dreaming of Cheese.” Slightly Foxed, no. 71, Sept. 2021, pp. 54–59. 

Shahzad, Khurram, Muhammad Abdullah, and Naveed B. Mirza. “Analyzing Patriarchal Preoccupation and Instinctual Delectation in Waste Land: A Gender Perspective.” International Research Journal of Arts and Humanities, vol. 49, no. 49, 2021, pp. 101.

Stergiopoulou, Katerina. “‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’: Reading the Quartets after the Letters to Emily Hale.”  First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, 137-142.

Turner, Patrick. “Building an Unreal City: Reading the Construction of St. Louis in Eliot’s The Waste Land.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, July 2021, pp. 576–95. 

Whittier-Ferguson, John. “‘After such knowledge…’: Readings in the Eliot-Hale Archive.’ Introduction to First Readings of the Eliot-Hale Archive, ed. John Whittier-Ferguson and Frances Dickey. The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 3. Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 117-122.

Witonsky, Trudi. “‘Something like Bringing the Entire Life’: Muriel Rukeyser’s Personal, Poetic and Social Development in the 1930s.” Women’s Studies, vol. 50, no. 4, June 2021, pp. 354–81.

Woelfel, Craig, and Jayme Stayer. “Introduction: Modernism and the Turn to Religion.” Renascence, vol. 73, no. 1, Winter 2021, pp. 3–11.
Wood, Juliette. “I Cannot Find the Hanged Man: Tarot Cards in Fantastic Fiction.” Folklore, vol. 132, no. 3, Sept. 2021, pp. 229–45. 

Theses and Dissertations

Gordon, Parker. “Twentieth-Century Pageants: Word, Music, and Drama in Inter-War Britain.” University of St Andrews. 2021.

Izquierdo, Jose Antonio. “El Mundo Clásico En La Obra Ensayística De T. S. Eliot.”  Universidad de Valladolid. 2021.

Pendry, Jane. “Music and Musical Culture in Ezra Pound and T.s. Eliot.” University of Sussex. 2021.

Varela Horro, Jorge. “Death Nature and Society in Cormac Mccarthy’s the Road T.s. Eliot’s the Waste Land and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby.” Universidade da Coruña. 2021.

Wang, Ziyun. “Translating The Waste Land: History, Patronage, and Poetics.” 王姿云 王姿云. “翻譯艾略特的<<荒原>> : 歷史 贊助和詩學.” 國立臺灣大學翻譯碩士學位學程. National Taiwan University. 2021.

Reviews

Barile, Laura. “T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale e La Modernità Dantesca: Di Ernesto Livorni. Pp. 396. Firenze: Le Lettere, 2020.” Italian Culture (Taylor & Francis Ltd), vol. 39, no. 2, Sept. 2021, pp. 240–42.

Burkett, Andrew. “Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings.” Victorian Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, 2021, pp. 440-442,478 Review of Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, by Jason Camlot; pp. xv ff 229. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019

Epstein, Joseph. “‘The Collected Prose of T. S. Eliot’ Review: Keeper of the Flame.” Wall Street Journal – Online Edition, 27 Nov. 2021

Fraiman, Susan. “Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life by Victoria Rosner (Review).” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 67, no. 3, 2021, pp. 599-602.

James, Fitz G. “Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka (Review).” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 67, no. 3, 2021, pp. 593-595.

Linett, Maren. “Embodied Modernism.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 28, no. 4, 2021, pp. 791-795.

Lustig, T. J. “The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature: The Quest to Fail by Jonathan Ullyot (Review).” The Henry James Review, vol. 42, no. 3, 2021, pp. E-12-E-14.

Meyer, Kinereth. “T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination by Jewel Spears Brooker (Review).” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 189–92. 

Robbins, Bruce. “Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age.” Victorian Studies, vol. 64, no. 1, Oct. 2021, pp. 142–44.Review of Land and Literature in a Cosmopolitan Age, by Vincent Pecora; pp. xxxvii ff 271. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, $93.00, $88.35 ebook.”

Journalism/Letters to the Editor:

Anonymous “First Mentions in the Times.” New York Times Book Review, Oct. 2021, p. 44. 

Anonymous. “Sweet sins.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6157, 2 Apr. 2021, p. 28. 

Anonymous. “Choicest wits.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6163, 14 May 2021, p. 27. 

Anonymous. “Eclectic shocks.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6164, 21 May 2021, p. 28. 

Baddiel, David. “Left out: On the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism: an exclusive extract from Jews Don’t Count.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6148, 29 Jan. 2021, pp. 8ff.

Bird, Roger, and Anthony Julius. “Antisemitism, Eliot and the Left.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6151, 19 Feb. 2021, p. 6. 

Green, Abigail, and David Baddiel. “Jews, Tradition and Anti-Semitism.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6154, 12 Mar. 2021, p. 6.

Goldman, David P. “T. S. Eliot.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life, May 2021, pp. 5–6.

Hux, Samuel. “T. S. Eliot.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life, May 2021, pp. 4–5.

Kitano, Christine. “Ars Poetica for the Next Decade.” The American Poetry Review, vol. 50, no. 3, May-June 2021, pp. 37ff. 

Ross-Smith, Bruce. “Eliot, Montale, and Dante.” TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6153, 5 Mar. 2021, p. 6.

Wilson, James Matthew. “T. S. Eliot.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life, May 2021, pp. 3–4.

By John Whittier-Ferguson

John Whittier-Ferguson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and is the current president of the International T. S. Eliot Society