The Art of T.S. Eliot is generally recognized as one of the very few first-rate critical studies of our finest living poet. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Oxford University, this study begins where Dr. F. O. Matthiessen left off in his Achievement of T.S. Eliot and brings the evaluation of Eliot almost to the present time. With the Four Quartets as the central focus of her analysis, Miss Gardner examines Eliot's work up to The Cocktail Party, tracing the changes in style and tracking down sources, ideas, basic symbols and ultimate meanings. Not only is she attentive to the smallest details of diction, rhythm and phrasing, but also to the broad sweeps of thought and philosophy.