This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references: literary, factual and historical. The notes are provided on a systematic, poem-by-poem basis.The Guide has been entirely reset for this further edition and the text incorporates important material drawn from the continuing research into Eliot's work published in recent years.