T. S Eliot
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First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is widely considered to be the most important and influential poem written in English in the twentieth century. This special edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece has been prepared to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
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"These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems." --
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The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism is a collection of literary essays written by T. S. Eliot. Originally published in 1920, these essays explore various aspects of poetry, literary criticism, and the nature of artistic expression. The collection is a significant work that sheds light on Eliot's views on poetry and provides insights into the modernist literary movement. "The Sacred Wood" is significant not only for its exploration of specific...
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This collection was originally published in 1920. Poems include: Gerontion -- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar -- Sweeney erect -- A cooking egg -- Le directeur -- Mélange adultčre 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...
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE
T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury
Written in 1934, Murder in the Cathedral tells of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's celebrated play solidified his reputation as the most significant...
10) Four quartets
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The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest...
11) Selected essays
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37 essays in an expanded edition of the author's major volume of criticism.
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A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, T.S. Eliot gave the manuscript to his benefactor in New York, John Quinn. At the same time, he sold to Quinn a notebook containing about fifty poems that he had written during his twenties. It was not until 1968, three years after the poet's death, that the double cache was unveiled within the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The early poems, from the notebook and the accompanying...
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This critique of modern society argues that culture must be organic, and cannot be planned or imposed. The word culture has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of any one class but of a whole society-and yet its preservation may depend...
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Between 1935, when Murder in the Cathedral was first produced at the Canterbury Festival, and 1958, when The Elder Statesman opened at the Edinburgh Festival prior to engagements in London and New York, Eliot had given three other plays to the theater. His paramount concerns can be traced through all five works. They have been said to be closely related, marking stages in the development of a new and individual form of drama, in which the poet...
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One of our most prized writers takes a poignant look at the powerful influences of religion and culture in the Western world in these two penetrating essays. The first, The Idea of a Christian Society, examines the undeniable link between religion, politics, and economy, suggesting that a real Christian society requires a direct criticism of political and economic systems. And in Notes towards the Definition of Culture, Eliot sets out to discover...
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Harvest books ; 18
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Touching on everyone from Marlowe to Middleton, Essays on Elizabethan Drama is a rigorous collection of Eliot's works on the great dramatists of the 16th century.
17) Selected poems
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Presents a collection of the best known poems by Nobel Prize winning author T.S. Eliot.
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The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems is a collection of T.S. Eliot's early poetry. This collection brings together The Waste Land, arguably T. S. Eliot's most famous poem, with the poetry originally published in Prufrock and Other Observations and Poems (1920). This collection of 25 poems in all will provide even the most serious of poetry readers with ample evidence of the genius of T.S. Eliot's work.
19) Ara Vus Prec
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This volume contains some of Eliot's earliest work that did not make the 'final cut' when he put together his Collected Poems many years later. The title Ara Vus Prec contains a spelling mistake. It is meant to be Ara Vos Prec, referring to a line by Arnaut Daniel, the great renaissance troubadour poet, who features in Dante's Inferno. The provencal words mean literally "to you I pray" or more loosely "I beg you" and Eliot apologised that he didn't...
20) The Rock
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The Nobel Prize–winning author created the words for this unique play about religion in the twentieth century.
The choruses in this pageant play represent a new verse experiment on Mr. Eliot's part; and taken together make a sequence of verses about twice the length of "The Waste Land."
Mr. Eliot has written the words; the scenario and design of the play were provided by a collaborator, and the purpose was to provide a pageant of the Church...