The Sacred Wood
1953, T S Eliot's collection of essays on poetry and criticism
Author
T S Eliot
Publisher
Faber & Faber, London, 1953
Printing Details
Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 171pp.
T S Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, first published in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews, among them 'Tradition and the Individual Talent', 'Hamlet and his Problems', and Eliot's thoughts on Marlowe, Jonson and Massinger, as well as his first tribute to Dante.
Condition
A good copy. The dustwrapper has light edgewear and the book has spotted foxing throughout but remains in strong readable condition.