This book offers a carefully explanatory as well as a critical reading of Eliot's Selected Poems. It tackles each poem individually, offering comments and explanations that are informed by current critical perspectives and draw on secondary as well as archival sources. In particular, there is an exhaustive section on The Waste Land. A concise and lucid introduction outlines Eliot's life, career and thought, and a select bibliography provides updated information on useful secondary literature. Undoubtedly of use to students and teachers of English literature, this book is also for all those general readers interested in one of the most eminent poets of the twentieth century.