T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect

G. Douglas Atkins is a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Reading T.S. Eliot: 'Four Quartets' and the Journey Towards Understanding; T.S. Eliot and the Essay; On the Familiar Essay; Challenging Academic Orthodoxies; Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and E.B. White; and Swift's Satires on Modernism. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies; has received several awards for teaching; and was the winner of the Kenyon Review's prize for literary excellence in nonfiction prose.

1. The Vanity of Human Wishes 2. Two and two, necessarye coniunction:Towards 'Amalgamating Disparate Experience' 3. He Do the Police in Different Voices: Eyes, You, and I in 'The Hollow Men' 4. 'The End of All Our Exploring': The Gift Half Understood in Four Quartets 5. Voices Hollow and Plaintive, Unattended and Peregrine: Hints and Guesses in The Waste Land 6. Tradition as (Disembodied) Voice: 'The word within the word' in 'Gerontion' 7. From Hints and Guesses: Eliot 'B.C.' and After Conversion