The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, containing such masterpieces of twentieth-century poetry and drama as ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, The Waste Land, the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Murder in the Cathedral, and much else besides.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571225163
Date Published
07.10.2004
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Summary

Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and Murder in the Cathedral.

‘Each year Eliot’s presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.’ Ted Hughes

T. S.Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet, critic, publisher, was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915, where for a few years he worked in the foreign section of Lloyds Bank. His first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917. In 1922, he became editor of the literary journal, The Criterion, publishing The Waste Land in its first…

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