SOURCE: "Eliot and 'Huck Finn': River and Sea in 'The Dry Salvages'," in T. S. Eliot Review, Vol. 3, Nos. 1 & 2, 1976, pp. 3-12.

In the following essay, Cuddy asserts that the sea and river imagery in "Dry Salvages" points to "the unifying theme of peregrination" in T. S. Eliot's poetry.

Whether we speak of his criticism, his lectures, or the prefaces which grace other authors' books, it is hardly a critical revelation to state that each prose piece written by T. S. Eliot is a clarification of his other work. Until now, however, little has been said of the prefaces and introductions, yet they reveal a great deal, not only about Eliot's preferences and motives in choosing to single out those authors as meriting his special recognition, but also about his own poetry, its meaning and direction. One prefatory essay, in particular, explicates. Part I of "The Dry Salvages"¹ and...