T S Eliot Anti-Semitism and Literary Form

"...[a] brilliant, passionately concentrated 'adversarial reading' of Eliot's work....By detailing the scope of Eliot's anti-semitic remarks and images, and by examining what several critical generations have made of them, Julius breaks down the protective barriers that have been erected around Eliot's work. His argument is that indifference to the offence given by certain of his poems is, among other things, a failure of interpretation, and as he demonstrates, critical interpretation has to carry with it a knowledge of previous and conflicting arguments about Eliot's work....A combination of steely fair-mindedness and evident admiration for Eliot's art makes his study read at times like a judge's summing-up in a long and difficult case...Julius, Anthony is the author of 'T S Eliot Anti-Semitism and Literary Form', published 2003 under ISBN 9780500282809 and ISBN 0500282803.