The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot’s imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet’s achievement–particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes–and clarifies Eliot’s relentless obsession with “savages” and sophisticates.