title: Selected Essays
author:  T. S. Eliot 
description: <P>Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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  The Complete prose _of_
  
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  
  The Critical Edition
  
  
  v o l u m e 2
  
  
  _The Perfect Critic_ 1919–1926
  
  
  _edited b y_
  
  
  ANTHONY CUDA _& _
  
  
  Ronald Schuchard
  
  
  Q R
  
  
  _The_ COMPLETE PROSE _of_
  
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  
  RONALD SCHUCHARD, _General Editor_
  
  
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  _The_ Complete Prose _of_
  
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  
  the critical edition
  
  
  Volume 2: _The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926_
  
  
  Edited by ANTHONY CUDA and
  
  
  Ronald Schuchard
  
  
  Baltimore
  
  
  _faber and faber_
  
  
  london
  
  
  This book was brought to publication
  
  
  with the assistance of the Hodson Trust.
  
  
  Eliot Prose © Estate of TS Eliot 2014
  
  
  Editorial Apparatus © Faber and Faber Ltd and
  
  
  the Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published 2014
  
  
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  ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-1295-5
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1-4214-1295-0
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [The Perfect Critic, 1919-1926: