Download or read book The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot written by Robert Crawford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.