Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was an American-British poet, essayist and playwright. He is considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest poets, as well as a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. His use of language, writing style, and verse structure reinvigorated English poetry. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

A cavallo tra il 1921 e il 1922, T.S. Eliot è preda di un grave esaurimento nervoso. La Prima guerra mondiale è finita da poco, da poco è concluso il conteggio dei cadaveri ammassati nelle trincee di mezza Europa. Il suolo del continente è maciullato, fetido, coperto da solchi e ferite ancora fresche, crivellato da crateri di bombe e granate. Non è una terra desolata, questa. È una terra devastata. Dal letto della sua clinica svizzera Eliot non smette di scrivere e, una volta a casa, mostr...

A lighter side of the great poet and the inspiration for the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats and the 2019 film of the same name directed by Tom Hooper.Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats will be a delightful surprise for any readers familiar with poem’s like The Waste Land and Prufrock. Eliot playfully weaves his way through 13 vignettes about cats, starting with some observations on the importance of cats’ names, before div...

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.

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.

A vivid exploration of the fundamental contradiction of martyrdom.Though best known for his poetry, T.S. Eliot was also an accomplished playwright. Murder in the Cathedral is a beautiful, haunting poetic take on the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170. Becket sees his death coming, but embraces it. This strange duality – a martyr’s death as both tragic and glorious – serves as the basis for the action.Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you clas...

One of T.S. Eliot’s earliest, and most significant works.A great achievement of modernist literature, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock takes the form of the complex musings of the titular Prufrock as he considers life and his role in it. The poem draws heavily on allusion to classical works, including Dante’s Divine Comedy and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with...

"The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is conclusively regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantr...

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

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.

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.

One of the greatest poems in the English language.The Waste Land is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, a beautiful examination of themes of decay and despair. Like many of his works, it alludes frequently to famous pieces of literature and legend, in this case most prominently to the legends of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King.Several images and lines from The Waste Land have become lodged in the popular consciousness, including “April is the cruellest month” and...