Publisher's Synopsis
One of T. S. Eliot's greatest contributions to English drama was his challenge to a whole period of criticism and practice. The problem seems to stem from the lack of poetry and style; and failure or the degree of failure due to continued adherence to false ideals. Prom these two concepts Mr. Eliot found it necessary to search elsewhere for the foundations of the art of drama. His search started as early as 1919 with the essay "Rhetoric and Poetic Drama." This was followed with "The Possibility of Poetic Drama," published in a collection of essays entitled The Sacred Grove, in 1920. Eliot's one attempt at strict drama from this early period, Sweeney Agonistes, 1926, remained a fragment...
