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“... nearly a century on, of Faber’s two all-comprehending new tomes, edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. The editors promise to ‘elucidate the difficulties’ of Eliot’s work by tracing every possible verbal overlap between the words used in his poems and the words used by other writers, both famous and obscure, in texts that range from Dante’s ...”

“... is for the words printed. In a tigerish piece published in Essays in Criticism earlier this year, Jim McCue noted a number of errors in the text of the poem itself, and furnished a seemingly endless list of the misquotations and typos that afflict every other part of the book. So exercised does McCue get that he calls ...”

“... the poetry looks svelte. Yet the 2015 Faber edition of the Poems by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue itself runs to nearly two thousand densely annotated pages. This, too, is a breathtaking achievement. Very few people will read through all these thousands of pages, and their publication risks making Eliot seem more daunting than ever. While this ...”