To Criticize the Critic and other writings

First edition. 8vo. Pp. 188, [1]. Cobalt blue linen cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Green dust-jacket printed in black, red, and blue. Short introductory note by Valerie Eliot. 1/6,000 copies printed.

Age darkened d/w spine, clipped f.f.e.p., sparse ink jottings to margins, else Fine.

A posthumous collection of Eliot's writings, dating from 1917 through the early 1960's, previously unpublished in book form; includes "From Poe to Valéry", "Reflections on Vers Libre", "American Literature and the American Language", and items on Dante and Ezra Pound. "This volume covers almost the whole range of Eliot's development and at the same time gives us a revealing and moving sense of the man who told so much while remaining so reticent." –Stephen Spender, New York Times Book Review

[Gallup A76a]