DRAMA
Eliot did much to bring about a revival of English poetic drama, both through his practice n critical pronouncements.
His dramatic production includes :
1.      The Rock, a Pageant Play, 1034
2.      Murder in the Cathedral, 1935
3.      The Family Reunion, 1939
4.      The Cocktail Party, 1950
5.      The Confidential Clerk, 1954
6.      The Elder Statesman, 1959.
As a dramatist, his range is narrower than that of his poetry. He began by writing purely Christian drama. The Rock is a pageant written in collaboration with E.M. Browne, and Murder in the Cathedral, one of his most significant plays, deals with the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The dramatist tries to bring home to his audiences the real meaning and significance of martyrdom. The setting is medieval. The later plays also have a religious theme, but the setting is contemporary and social. By the time of The Family Reunion, Eliot felt a need to appeal to larger and larger audiences, and hence his use of the verse-form is not esoteric or subtle, or only for the learned few. These later plays are basically upper-class drawing-room comedies in the tradition of the Comedy of Manners, with a strong melodramatic element. They can be enjoyed as such by the unthinking, while for the more thoughtful there is the religious content- the meaning of martyrdom to the modern world, and the place in it of the saint.
Eliot’s plays suffer from a tinge of artificiality which has limited their appeal. They have been written according to a preconceived theory, and represent a reaction against the English dramatic tradition. Successful drama in England, with few exceptions, has never been written to rule and theories. He might have produced successful plays in the classical style, but they have always seemed artificial to English audiences.
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Literary Criticism
Eliot stands in the long line of poet-critics with Ben Johnson and including such names as Dryden, Johnson, Coleridge and Matthew Arnold. Such critics know the mysteries of their own art and so can speak with force and conviction.
Eliot’s critical pronouncements, first published largely in the form of articles and essays, in numerous periodicals and journals of the day, have now been collected in the following books:
1.      The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 1933
2.      The Ideal of a Christian Society, 1939
3.      Notes Towards a Definition of Culture, 1948
4.      Selected Essays, Third Edition, 1951
5.      On Poetry and Poets, 1957
6.      To Criticise the Critic, 1965
Traditional and Individual Talent, Poetry and Drama, the Function of Criticism, The English Metaphysical Poets, The Frontiers of Criticism, etc., are among his more popular essays in literary criticism.
The value of Eliot’s criticism arises from the fact that he speaks with authority and conviction, and his prose style is as precise and memorable as his poetry. He has been largely responsible for the revival of interest in the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century. His rare gift of crystallizing his thought in striking, trenchant phrases, has gained for him, wide popularity and appeal. Phrases like, Dissociation of sensibility etc., have gained wide currency.
Journalism

Eliot worked as editor of The Criterion from 1922-1939. This literary magazine stood for the integrity of European culture. It received contributions from all over Europe on a vide variety of subjects, and its contents reflect the Catholicity of Eliot’s interests. Eliot himself closed down the magazine when, with the outbreak of war, it became clear that the breakdown of communication with Europe was inevitable.