T.S. Eliot - The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume 6: 1932-1933

THE LETTERS OF
T. S. ELIOT
VOLUME 6

By T. S. Eliot

THE POEMS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: Collected and Uncollected Poems
Volume 2: Practical Cats and Further Verses
edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue

THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

verse
COLLECTED POEMS 19091962
PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
FOUR QUARTETS
SELECTED POEMS
THE WASTE LAND:
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:
Poems 19091917
edited by Christopher Ricks
THE ARIEL POEMS
THE WASTE LAND
OLD POSSUMS BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN

literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
THE VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
edited by Frank Kermode
THE COMPLETE PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT: THE CRITICAL EDITION
Volume 1: Apprentice Years, 19051918
edited by Jewel Spears Brooker and Ronald Schuchard
Volume 2: The Perfect Critic, 19191926
edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard
Volume 3: Literature, Politics, Belief, 19271929
edited by Frances Dickey, Jennifer Formichelli, Ronald Schuchard

social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE

letters
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: 18981922
Volume 2: 19231925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
Volume 3: 19261927
Volume 4: 19281929
Volume 5: 19301931
edited by Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden

EDITED BY

VALERIE ELIOT

AND

JOHN HAFFENDEN

VOLUME 6
19321933

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