Primary Works of Literary Criticism By T. S. Eliot
- Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. London: L. and Virginia Woolf, 1927.
- On Poetry and Poets. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.
- The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London Menthuen, 1950.
- Selected Essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950.
- The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry. Ed. Ronald Schuchard. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
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