"The Sacred Wood" was the first book of criticism by this Missouri-born "Four Quartets" poet
Eliot's Life and Career - English [PAR] 1965), poet, critic, and editor, was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St. Louis, 
Missouri, the son .... boost from the publication of his first book, Prufrock and 
Other Observations, ... slim volume of verse, Poems, and a volume of criticism, 
The Sacred Wood.