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4,000 pages of T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism is not enough

Faber’s text-only, strictly chronological four-volume edition of the prose is fatally purist – though admittedly cheaper than the eight-volume Johns Hopkins version

Craig Raine
Portrait of T.S. Eliot by Wyndham Lewis, c.1930. Bridgeman Images
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  • The Collected Prose: Volume I, 1905-1928; Volume II, 1929-1934; Volume III, 1935-1950; Volume IV 1951-1960

    T.S. Eliot, edited by Archie Burnett

    Faber, £50

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