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« The classic made new | Main | Mailbag » Monday, December 11, 2006I had not thought Eliot had written so many pagesMark Feeney, who is running away with the 2006 Brainiac Sixth Man Award, wrote this morning to bring my attention to what seems like a rather fascinating undertaking: The Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing the complete prose of T.S. Eliot. Says JHU: The project will be developed under the editorial direction of Ronald Schuchard, the renowned Eliot scholar and professor at Emory University, and co-published with Faber and Faber, the literary publisher founded by Eliot in the 1920s. What's so special about this? Well, according to Schuchard, only about 10 percent of Eliot's prose has ever been published. I confess to not having read much of Eliot's prose, though I have dipped into his Shakespeare criticism a bit (he famously thinks very little of Hamlet). This promises to be an important volume, though I'm not sure it will supplant my favorite Eliot book, the facsimile edition of the Wasteland, in which you can look over the shoulder of "il miglior fabbro," Ezra Pound, as he scratches out his edit of Eliot's draft (working title: "He Do the Police in Different Voices"). Posted by John Swansburg at 04:40 PM
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