- It compiles the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment available of Eliot's work and career
- It explores the powerful forces that shaped Eliot as a writer and thinker, analyzing his body of work and assessing his oeuvre in a variety of contexts: historical, cultural, social, and philosophical
- It charts the surge in critical interest in T.S. Eliot since the early 1990s
- It provides an illuminating insight into a poet, writer, and critic who continues to define the literary landscape of the last century