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The Winner of the Nobel Trize for Literature, the Twentieth 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--Forbiddingly Learned, Maddeningly Enigmatic. Now, in This Brilliant Exploration of T.S. Eliot's Work, Prize-Winning 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 Argues That an Implicit Controlling Theme--The Buried Life, or the Failure of Feeling--Unfolds in Surprisingly Varied Ways Throughout Eliot's Work. but Alongside Eliot's Desire "To Live With All Intensity" Was Also a Distrust of "Violent Emotion for Its Own Sake." Raine Illuminates This Paradoxical Eliot--An Exacting Anti-Romantic Realist, Skeptical of The