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...

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.

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.

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 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...

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.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.The Spectator praised Jeremy Irons's interpretation as 'so accessible, reading Eliot as if finding his words for the first time, grappling...

T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings.The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's appro...

El mayor poema del siglo XX«La temible Tierra baldía de T. S. Eliot vuelve a vivir en la versión de Andreu Jaume.»Félix de Azúa, El PaísAdemás de ser el gran poema del siglo XX, La tierra baldía es una obra esencial para entender nuestro tiempo. Con una dicción y unas imágenes rompedoras, T.S. Eliot sabe cantar la devastación de la prime...

Poesía meditativa, lírica, dramática y espiritual, Cuatro cuartetos, ahora traducida, anotada y comentada por Andreu Jaume, es una de las grandes obras de la literatura del siglo XX y constituye el gran legado moral de T.S. Eliot para el siglo XXI.«Me habría gustado escribir Cuatro cuartetos, de Eliot.»Vicente Valero, El PaísCuando parecía que su obra poética había concluido, T. S. Eliot s...

T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings.The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record...