"To accompany Eliot's poems, Ricks and McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. This second volume opens with two books of verse: the children's verse of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of...

Macavity is the world's most mischievous cat and a master criminal.

The first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married , settled in England and published The Waste Land. The contents of the original edition were assembled and edited by his widow, Valerie, from collections, libraries, and private sources worldwide. Originally published on the centenary of Eliot's birth. Volume two covers the time period of Eliot's publication of The Hallow Men and his...