Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of w...

Ezra Pound emerges here as one of modern poetry's most talked-about and least easily understood figures: a writer admired for scholarship, technical daring, and provocation, yet still often misread as obscure or merely eccentric. Beginning with the unlikely debut of A Lume Spento in Venice and Pound's arrival in London without money or patronage, the account traces how his early books drew both ridicule and praise for verse that felt startlingly alive, emotionally intense, and technically ...

T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is among the masterpieces of English poetry, The poem links the past and the present and examines the wretched condition of mankind.

Eeldrop and Appleplex rent shabby rooms in a morally shadowed district, drawn to the nearby police station and the raw spectacle of human life. As they watch crowds, suspects, and passersby, they search for those rare moments when a person slips free of a social label and appears in vivid, irreducible reality. Their conversations are sharp, restless, and skeptical of easy categories, whether in daily life or in philosophy itself. Through reflections on a vulgar Spaniard, a troubled marriag...

"There are no poetic 'subjects' in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of metre and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: 'We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age'."The main poem in this collection is 'The Waste Land' (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has himself supplied some revealing footn...

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels.

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men," and "Ash Wednesday"—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot's early work.

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.T.S. Eliot was a legendary British poet in the 20th century. Eliot wrote some of the most famous poems in English literature and received the Nobel Prize in 1948. Eliot’s collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats became the basis of a musical created by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The Collected Works of T.S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and would settle, work and marry there.This collection includes the following:Prufrock and Other ObservationsPoemsThe Waste LandThe Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

The Works of T. S. EliotEeldrop and AppleplexEzra Pound His Metric and PoetryPoemsPrufrock and Other ObservationsThe Waste Land

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.Summer surprised us, coming over the StarnbergerseeWith a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,And went on in sunlight, into the HofgartenAnd drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry.In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot's verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible "image of its accelerated grimace," in the words of Eliot's friend and mentor Ezra Pound. This twenty-four-poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot's greatest works—including the classic "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"—all of which unveil the desires, grievances, fail...