International Reception of T. S. Eliot

<p><em>The International Reception of T. S. Eliot</em> brings together a wide range of international perspectives on this influential twentieth-century author who as poet critic and editor did much to shape modernist poetics not only in Europe and North America but also world-wide. Foregrounding distinct aspects of Eliot's international reception individual chapters of the book illuminate such topics as Eliot's complex impact on the development of modernist poetics in the post-colonial Caribbean the emergent state of Israel and colonial India; the insurgent potential of translated Eliot in Soviet-occupied Romania and post-war Germany; the different ways in which Eliot's work has entered the cultural life of national and emergent national contexts like Iceland Italy Spain China and Japan; the relationships forged with Eliot's poetry and criticism by such authors as Jorge Borges Czeslaw Milosz A.J.M. Smith and E.R. Curtius; the unique reverberations of Eliot's work in the bi-cultural lives of contemporary scholars; and the challenges of teaching Eliot across boundaries of culture and religion. Importantly broadening the purview of Anglo-American Eliot Studies the book should prove essential reading for scholars around the world interested in Eliot and modernism as well as post-colonial theory and modernist translation theory.</p>