T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

The leading venue for critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his oeuvre, including poems, prose, letters, and plays. The Annual is published by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press, and our articles are accessible via Liverpool, JSTOR Books, University Scholarship Online, and soon Project Muse. Members of the Society are entitled to free access to the Annual (access information here).

We welcome submissions pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work, life, and influence.  The Annual publishes essays, research notes, book reviews, and special topic forums.

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The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Vol. 6

Craig Woelfel and Kevin Rulo are delighted to report that Volume 6 of the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual has been published and is now available on the Liverpool University Press website. Current Eliot Society members should have received an access email from the Press back in early March (and can retrieve the information at any time from this page). If your membership has lapsed, please renew it to regain access!

Volume 6 features an article by Anita Patterson on Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy, essays by Joshua Mabie, Jayme Stayer, Benjamin Crace, and a forum on Eliot’s letters to Emily Hale with contributions by Anthony Cuda, Gualter Cunha, Frances Dickey, Sara Fitzgerald, Megan Quigley, and Atsushi Nakamura; a note by Paul Keers; reviews by Timothy Materer, and Justin Stec; bibliographies of current work in Eliot studies compiled by Ariadne Lewis and Kevin Rulo (a full Table of Contents is provided below). 

A special thanks to outgoing Editor Frances Dickey for her work assembling the volume, and to all of the Society members whose worked helped in preparing it.

Contents of Volume 6

Articles

Anita Patterson, “T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, The Waste Land, and the Middle Passage”

Joshua Mabie, “The Architecture of T. S. Eliot’s St. Louis Childhood”

Jayme Stayer, “Eliot’s Fugitive Prose: Previously Unrecorded and Unattributed Notes from The New English Weekly

 Benjamin Crace, “British Emergentism, Alfred North Whitehead, and The Dry Salvages”

Forum: The T. S. Eliot-Emily Hale Letters

Frances Dickey, “The Theory of Pipit: Emily Hale, Naming, and Impersonality”

Megan Quigley, “ ‘Perfectly good, normal, and right’: Eliot, Intimacy, and Abnormality”

Gualter Cunha, “Eliot in Portugal, 1935-64”

Anthony Cuda, “Emily Hale and the Several Reunions”

Atsushi Nakamura, “Emily Hale and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Sara Fitzgerald, “Poetry, Taste, and Emily Hale”

Research Notes

Paul Keers, “Of Silk Hats and Yorkshire Wealth: Notes on T. S. Eliot’s Bradford Millionaire”

Book Reviews

Justin Stec, “Building a Biographic Formalism: A Review of Jasmine Jagger’s Rhythms of Feeling in Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith

Timothy Materer, “T. S. Eliot’s Love Letters, Sacred and Profane: A Review of The Eliot-Hale Letters

Timothy Materer, “T. S. Eliot’s Letters and the Course of Eliot Studies: Preface and Reviews of T. S. Eliot’s Letters, Volumes 1–4”

Bibliography

Ariadne Lewis, “T. S. Eliot Bibliography 2022”

Ariadne Lewis and Kevin Rulo, “T. S. Eliot Bibliography 2023”

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Online ISSN: 2771-1625
Print ISSN: 2689-4181

Editors

Craig Woelfel, Flagler College

Kevin Rulo, Catholic U. of America

Editorial Advisory Board

Jewel Spears Brooker

Ronald Bush

David E. Chinitz

Robert Crawford

Anthony Cuda

Lyndall Gordon

John Haffenden

Benjamin Lockerd

Gabrielle McIntire

John D. Morgenstern

Jahan Ramazani

Christopher Ricks

Ronald Schuchard

Vincent Sherry

Jayme Stayer

John Whittier-Ferguson