The Guardian

The Poems of TS Eliot: The Annotated Text review – a monumental achievement

Eliot went from starchy student to Nobel laureate who could pack out baseball stadiums on an American tour. This landmark study provides the background to a groundbreaking body of work Buying an ...
The Daily Star

A poem annotated by the poet

Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian novelist and poet,is known around the world for his novel "Lolita", the story of a sordid affair between a middle-aged college professor and a 14 year old nymphet.
The Independent

The Poems of T.S. Eliot: The Annotated Text. Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, book review

This is a magnificent piece of work, although when I found myself reading the richly detailed editorial commentary here not only on The Waste Land but also Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats with the ...
The Guardian

The Poems of TS Eliot: The Annotated Texts, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue – digested read

‘The Waste Land could be a forerunner to the works of Pam Ayres. Note the driving urgency of its commas’ The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock (1) In the room the women come and go Talking of ...
BBC

Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot, Arthur Miller play premier, Top picks for non-fiction books of 2015

Arts news with John Wilson, including literary critic Christopher Ricks on TS Eliot's annotated poems and a review of the Arthur Miller play No Villain. Show more John Wilson talks to the great ...