Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land Facsimile

T. S. Eliot

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain ...

Published in 1922 ...

Let Us Go Then, You and I

T. S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us ...

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden (1907-73) came to prominence in the 1930s among a generation of outspoken poets that included his friends Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and ...

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical ...

John Betjeman

John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (1906-84) was born in Highgate, the son of a manufacturer of Dutch descent. After university he joined the staff of the Architectural ...

W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats & Seamus Heaney

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century ...

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his ...

A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

B. C. Southam

This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well-established Guide . It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by ...