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Thomas Stearns Eliot, a universal poet and dramatist, and Nobel laureate, was one of the most daring innovators of the 20th century poetry. He achieved the most dominant position in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world. T.S. Eliot represents the high water-mark of the modernist movement in European literature which affected art and culture not only within the English-speaking world, or the European lands, but around the four corners of the globe. He was a poet, a dramatist and a critic of literature and society. He dominated the literary and cultural scene during most of the twentieth century. Though the world is now said to have entered into, what is usually called, the post-modernist stage, yet modernism is still relevant. Whether post-modernism is considered to be a break with, or the continuation of, modernism, the latter occupies a central place in the whole dialectics of the cultural movement of the 20th century. The present Volume is an in-depth critical study of the whole oeuvre of T.S. Eliot by diverse hands. This is a must for the students, teachers, scholars of culture and modern English Literature. About Author: Prof. D.K. Rampal, born July 1934, in Jammu region of J&K State, is a distinguished scholar in the field of modern English and American Literature. T.S. Eliot is a particular area of his specialisation. Having obtained a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the then University of Jammu and Kashmir, he has been teaching and conducting research in varied subjects of literary interest. He obtained Ph.D. from the University of Jammu and has served there as Lecturer, Reader and Professor, rising to Head of Department twice. He is a versatile writer and has been guiding research for the last three decades. He is a familiar figure at National and International Seminars and organised a National Seminar on T.S. Eliot in the Centennial year. Prof. Rampal has widened his interest to include colonial and post-colonial studies. From 1994 to 2002, he was the Director, Centre for New Literature, University of Jammu, organising studies in Australian, Canadian, African, Caribbean and Indian writing in English. His forthcoming publications are on the subject of literary theory, and colonial and neo-colonial literature and theory.