The Sacred Wood is T. S. Eliot's collection of essays published in 1920. The major essays contained in the book are "The Perfect Critic" and "Imperfect Critic," "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and "Hamlet and His Problems," and others. It is one of the 20 published collections of critical works by T. S. Eliot, the critic and poet.

Introduction
7
The Perfect Critic
23
Imperfect Critics
47
Swinburne as Critic
47
A Romantic Aristocrat
58
The Local Flavour
70
A Note on the American Critic
79
The French Intelligence
88
Tradition and the Individual Talent
93
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama
113
Euripides and Professor Murray
129
Rhetoric and Poetic Drama
141
Some Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe
153
Hamlet and His Problems
169
Ben Jonson
183
Phillip Massinger
213
Swinburne as Poet
247
Blake
257
Dante
271
Transcriber’s Notes
295
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297