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The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the 20th century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter, T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult poet. Craig Raine reveals that, on the contrary, Eliot's poetry (and drama and criticism) can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely as other more conventional poetry. Raine also examines Eliot's criticism - including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination - and he concludes with a convincing refutation of charges that Eliot was an anti-Semite. Here then is a volume absolutely indispensable for all admirers of T. S. Eliot and, in fact, for everyone who loves modern literature.