Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot

Mr Donoghue's book is that rarest of things when it comes to understanding Eliot: Accessible. Many scholars seem to have built careers making the sometimes intellectually challenging Eliot even more challenging. Donoghue does the opposite. For all those undergraduates out there who have found Eliot frustrating, I suggest you look here for help. Eliot is far too important to be dismissed out of impatience. He is simply not to be missed by any lover of English. Donoghue offers clear, easily readable, readily digestible pathways to understanding Eliot's poetry and why it has had such a powerful influence on modern thought.

If the goal of this book was to make Eliot more accessible, the author has succeeded.

This is a very interesting and quotable book, well written and a very easy read

Good service, useful book.