T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures

2024: Langdon Hammer, Lyric, Anti-Lyric, and the Early Eliot; a recording of the lecture may be found here.

2023: Linda Gregerson, Eliot and Ignorance; a recording of the lecture may be found here.

2022: Doug Mao, The People of The Waste Land (Forthcoming in T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 5 [2023]).

2021: Robert Pinsky, T. S. Eliot, 1933, 1958, 1962, 2016
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2020: Robert von Hallberg, Intellectual Eloquence: East Coker
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2019: Leonard Diepeveen, T. S. Eliot, Fraud
Published in T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 3 (2021), 23-46.

2018: David E. Chinitz, What Is Overannotation? Interrogating the New Eliot Editions

2017: John Haffenden, “Literary Dowsing”: Valerie Eliot and the Editing of The Waste Land
Published in T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 2 (2018), 133-49.

2016: Lyndall Gordon, “Footfalls Echo in the Memory”: Eliot’s Expatriation

2015: Jed Esty, Capes and Continents: Eliot’s Frontier and the Rhetoric of Decline

2014: Sarah Cole, In the Cave, in the Valley, in the Cathedral, in the Body: Scales of History in Eliot and Modernism

2013: Jahan Ramazani, T. S. Eliot, Poetry and Prayer
Incorporated into “Poetry and Prayer” in Poetry and its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2014), 126-83.

2012: Daniel Albright, T. S. Eliot’s Non-Euclidean Geometry

2011: Jean-Michel Rabaté, Playing Possum: Symbolic Death and Symboliste Impotence in Eliot’s French Heritage
Published in T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe, ed. Jayme Stayer (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2015), 2-23.

2010: Michael Levenson,“and what if she should die some afternoon”: Eliot’s Stage of Violence

2009: Ronald Bush,“Intensity by association”: Eliot’s Passionate Allusions
Published in Modernism/modernity 20.4 (2013): 709-27.

2008: Grace Schulman, The “Ariel” Poems: T. S. Eliot and E. McKnight Kauffer

2007: George T. Wright, Some Reflections on Eliot’s Changing Poetic Styles
Published as “’Every Poem an Epitaph’: Eliot’s Changing Styles” in Poetic Craft and Authorial Design in Shakespeare, Keats, T.S. Eliot, and Henry James (Lewiston, NY : Mellen, 2011), 139-59.

2006: William F. Blissett, T. S. Eliot and David Jones: Rats, Romans, and Trees

2005: Robert Crawford, More Distant than Stars and Nearer than the Eye
Published as “T. S. Eliot’s Daughter” in Proceedings of the British Academy 167: 2009 Lectures (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011), 479-97.

2004: Craig Raine, T. S. Apteryx—The Anti-Romantic
Published as “Eliot as Classicist: The Enquiry Into Feelings” in T. S. Eliot (New York: Oxford UP, 2006), 41-74.

2003: Leon Surette, Eliot, Stevens and “Pale Ramon”
Published as “Eliot, Stevens, and ‘Pale Ramon’ Fernandez” in The Modern Dilemma: Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Humanism (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2008), 199-233.

2002: Marjorie Perloff, “Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors”: “Gerontion” and the Limits of Language
Published as “‘Cunning Passages, Contrived Corridors’: Rereading Eliot’s ‘Gerontion’” in Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy (Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004), 20-38.

2001: Geoffrey Hill, Word Value in F. H. Bradley and T. S. Eliot
Published in Collected Critical Writings, ed. Kenneth Haynes (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008), 532-47.

2000: Carl Phillips, Poetry, Consciousness, Gift: The Model of T. S. Eliot
Published in Coin of the Realm: Essays in the Life and Art of Poetry (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2004), 75-92.

1999: Helen Vendler, Historical Contexts: Available Discourses
Published as “Inventing Prufrock” in Coming of Age as a Poet (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004), 81-114.

1998: Charles Altieri, Eliot as Theorist of the Emotions
Published as “Theorizing Emotions in Eliot’s Poetry and Poetics” in Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot, ed. Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004), 150-72.

1997: James Longenbach, Recovering a Postmodern Eliot
Published as “What Was Postmodern Poetry?” in Modern Poetry After Modernism (New York: Oxford UP, 1997): 3-21.

1996: Marianne Thormählen, “Who devised the torment?” Love in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays
Published as “T. S. Eliot—Poet of Love” in Britannien und Europa: Studien zur Literatur-, Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte, ed. Michael Szczekalla (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010), 175-86.

1995: Louis Menand, T. S. Eliot and Modernity
Published in New England Quarterly 69.4 (1996): 554-79.

1994: William Harmon, The Fire and the Rose: Eliot and the Popular

1993: Christopher Ricks, Early Eliot

1992: Denis Donoghue, The American T. S. Eliot

1991: Cleo McNelly Kearns, Apocalypse and Wisdom: The Problem of Tone in The Waste Land and Four Quartets
Published in Christianity and Literature 41.2 (1992): 121-39.

1990: Shyamal Bagchee, Eliot and Coleridge

1989: Leonard Unger, Actual Times and Actual Places in Eliot’s Poetry
Published in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 90-106.

1988: A. D. Moody, T. S. Eliot: The American Strain
Published in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 77-89.

1987: James Olney, Memory and Imagination in T. S. Eliot’s Reconstruction of the Past
Published as “Mixing Memory and Imagination” in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 60-76.

1986: Grover Smith, T. S. Eliot and the Fascination of Hamlet
Published in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 43-59.

1985: Ronald Schuchard, The Savage Comedian and the Sweeney Myth
Published in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 27-42. Rpt. in Eliot’s Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 87-101.

1984: Jewel Spears Brooker, Substitutes for Religion in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Published in The Placing of T. S. Eliot, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991), 11-26.

1983: Earl K. Holt III

1982: Charles Guenther

1981: Robert C. Roach

1980: Marcella Holloway