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2009

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

An engaging collection of humorous poems. These verses, originally composed to amuse Eliot' s intimate friends, have proven irresistible to cat lovers, lovers of nonsense, and admirers of Eliot throughout the English-speaking world. " Enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most...verses" (Time). Drawings by Nicolas Bentley.

The Waste Land

1910

Perhaps the most written-about long poem of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a cornerstone of the modernist movement and deals with what was then viewed as the decline of civilization. Because of its changes of speaker, location, and time, as well as its numerous literary and cultural references, The Waste Land is often used in the classroom to exemplify how to explicate a poem. This title offers students an indispensable resource meant to deepen their appreciation of this semina....[more]

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

1940

25 works, representing the essential T. S. Eliot, include the title poem plus the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," others) and the complete "Poems,"

Murder in the Cathedral

1963

A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. "The theatre as well as the church is enriched by this poetic play of grave beauty and momentous decision" (New York Times). "Within its limits the play is a masterpiece.... Mr. Eliot has written no better poem than this and none which seems simpler" (Mark Van Doren, The Nation).

Four Quartets

1943

The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the se....[more]

Prufrock and Other Observations

2001

Prufrock and Other Observations is a publication of short stories by T. S. Eliot. This publication features twelve classic works by T. S. Eliot including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Portrait of a Lady, Preludes and Rhapsody on a Windy Night. This is an excllent title for those who are fans of the writings of T. S. Eliot, or people who are just starting to discover his works.

Criticism in America : Its Functions and Status

1898

In essays dating between 1910 & 1923, noted writers & scholars, including Irving Babbitt & T. S. Eliot, present what is probably the first fundamental discussion of the nature of criticism in American literature.

Inventions of the March Hare Poems, 1909-1917

1996

This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. "Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Christopher Ricks.

Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot

1969

Thirty-one essays-categorized as "essays in generalization," "appreciations of individual authors," and "social and religious criticism"- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliot's original ideas, cogent conclusions, and skill and grace in language. Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode; Index. Published jointly with Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Collected Poems : 1909-1962

1963

In this volume, one of the most distinguished poets of our century selected all of his poetry through 1962 that he wished to preserve. An event of major literary significance, Collected Poems 1909-1962 was published on T. S. Eliot's seventy-fifth birthday. It offers the complete text of Collected Poems 1909-1935, the full text of Four Quartets, and several other poems. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, widely honored for his poetry, criticism, essays, and plays, T. S. Eliot exerted a prof....[more]

On Poetry and Poets

1957

An important collection of T. S. Eliot's literary essays and lectures composed, with one exception, in the 1940s and 1950s. All the material is subsequent to the criticism represented in his standard Selected Essays. In this volume Eliot is concerned solely with individual poets (Virgil, Sir John Davies, Milton, Johnson, Byron, Goethe, Kipling, Yeats) and with the art of poetry.

T. S. Eliot : Selected Poems

1954

This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addition to any poetry library. From the prolific T.S. Eliot, a pioneer of modernism, here are his most groundbreaking works, including:• "The Wasteland"• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"• "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service"

The Cocktail Party

1940

A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "An authentic modern masterpiece" (New York Post). "Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry" (Stephen Spender).

The Family Reunion

1939

A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man's guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. "What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the finest verse play since the Elizabethans" (New York Times).

The Sacred Wood : Essays on Poetry and Criticism

1920

One of poetry's great voices reviews the creations of his literary forebears with essays on the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Blake, the Metaphysical Poets, and other authors. Plus 4 essays from "The Times Literary Supplement."

The Waste Land and Other Writings

2001

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in callin....[more]

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Vol. 1 : 1898-1922

1987

Eliot's correspondence from his childhood in St. Louis until he had settled in England and published The Waste Land. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Index; photographs.