From the back cover: "T.S. Eliot, the aristocratic poet-philosopher (1888-1965) lived most of his life in London. A dramatist and publisher, his poems voiced the anxiety and despair of an uncertain generation confronting a world bereft of faith. Eliot himself reads the works that have become classics in our time. With commentary by Stephen Spender, Quentin Bell, Frank Kermode and others, this audio reveals the man who became a literary icon. A production of the New York Center for Visual History - Executive Producer: Lawrence Pitkethly."