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Synopsis The knight and the Saint: A Study of T.S. Eliot's Development is an in-depth research into the works and development of T.S. Eliot. Using the emblematic figures of the knight and the Saint as the questers after the Infinite, as cited by Eliot's teacher Irving Babbitt in his Rousseau and Romaniticism, Dr. Madge views Eliot's literary output as a reflection of his various quests. In doing so the traditional picture of T.S. Eliot as the hard, impersonal classicist is significantly altered and this also helps to establish Eliot's linkages with the Romantics and Victorians and thus brings the venture called Modernism in tune with Wordsworth and Coleridge's experiment on Romaniticism. The use of the new biographical information and of the so far silent voices of Eliot now becoming articulate makes readers get a very different picture of the poet and that makes Dr. Madge's book a significant contribution to Eliot-scholarship.