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A life of inner CHAOS; Words Alone: The Poet T S Eliot. By Denis Donoghue (Yale University Press, pounds 17.95). Reviewed by Keith Brace.(Books)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010210
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Byline: Keith Brace

Great poet or great fraud? Enlightened Christian thinker or fascist reactionary? The greatest English-language poet of the 20th century or minor though deeply influential eccentric, already being forgotten?

The Case of T S Eliot will not go away, though he has been dead for 35 years. Here is another book about him, greatly distinguished and full of insights, by a leading literary scholar.

But will it help those of us who grew up with, and indeed grew old with Eliot's work, to decide if he was that greatest poet of the dreadful 20th century, now ...

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