The Essential T.S. Eliot

The Essential T.S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0062978144

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work—including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)—continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

Eliot: Poems

Eliot: Poems
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2015-02-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0375712755

Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters. Contents: Gerontion; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar; Sweeney Erect; A Cooking Egg; Le Directeur; Melange adultere de tout; Lune de Miel; The Hippopotamus; Dans le Restaurant; Whispers of Immortality; Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr. Apollinax; Hysteria; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Pianga.

Poems

Poems
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1920
Genre:
ISBN:

A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.

T. S. Eliot in Context

T. S. Eliot in Context
Author: Jason Harding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139500155

T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding are his poems, essays and plays. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essential to the fullest understanding of his challenging and controversial body of work. It explores a broad range of subjects relating to Eliot's life and career; key literary, intellectual, social and historical contexts; as well as the critical reception of his oeuvre. Taken together, these chapters sharpen critical appreciation of Eliot's writings and present a comprehensive, composite portrait of one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent men of letters. Drawing on original research, T. S. Eliot in Context is a timely contribution to an exciting reassessment of Eliot's life and works, and will provide a valuable resource for scholars, teachers, students and general readers.

Eliot and His Age

Eliot and His Age
Author: Russell Kirk
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1984
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780893852474

On Poetry and Poets

On Poetry and Poets
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0374531978

T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot explores the different forms and purposes of poetry in essays such as "The Three Voices of Poetry," "Poetry and Drama," and "What Is Minor Poetry?" as well as the works of individual poets, including Virgil, Milton, Byron, Goethe, and Yeats. As he writes in "The Music of Poetry," "We must expect a time to come when poetry will have again to be recalled to speech. The same problems arise, and always in new forms; and poetry has always before it . . . an ‘endless adventure.'"

Complete Poems and Plays

Complete Poems and Plays
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1971
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780151211852

This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.

Four Quartets

Four Quartets
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0547539703

The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Author: D. E. S. Maxwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317308174

In this fascinating and revealing book, first published in 1952, Maxwell shows the development of Eliot’s poetry and poetic thought in the light of his political and religious attachments. This study traces Eliot’s style from the earliest poems to the Quartets, and examines the characteristics of Eliot’s earlier work adumbrate that of his maturity. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot is essential reading for students of literature.