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by: T. S. Eliot
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780151189786
ISBN: 0151189781
Label: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 25, 1991
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Sales Rank: 23816
Studio: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Product Description:
Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliot’s poetry that he wished to preserve.
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Rating: - Delightful addition to our collection!
This a great collection of poems from the past! If you enjoy whimsy, this is for you!
Rating: - one of the best ever
with eliot, a maximum of content is achieved through a FORM worked with a
care and conciousness not seen perhaps since the greeks. he understood,
as he once wrote, that the novel form ended with flaubert. in the centuries after picasso and stravinsky there is no place for anything in
literature which makes people remain sitting, whithout standing and perhaps dancing. the same thing could be said about pound, very different though very twin.
Rating:  - Greatness compromised
The Eliot of despair, the Eliot of 'Prufrock' and 'Wasteland' is contended with and overcome by the Eliot of the 'Quartets'. The message of modern mankind's meaninglessness, the broken fragments ( of Tradition) shored against his ruin is replaced by the vision of sacred turning, a Christian vision of redemption. Eliot is a writer whose work and life break down into these two distinct periods each of which has its champions in defining what is best in him.
As one raised on 'April is the cruelest ... Read More
Rating: - Truly, one of the giants
When you think of the best poets ever, T.S. Eliot is one of those that comes to mind. His work is well crafted, intelligent, beautifully written, and has a flow to it that few poets can match. And this is a fine collection for the Eliot lover or for the reader unfamiliar with Eliot. It's divided into several sections. The first section is his Prufrock section, poems from 1917, which contains probably his finest poems: "Prufrock", "Preludes" "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", "Hysteria", among others. Then there ... Read More
Rating: - Good stuff
Yep, this is a great collection of Eliot's works. I initially found out about Eliot throught the Movie 'Apocalypse Now' in which Brando is heard reciting the poem 'The Hollow Men'. The poem sounded so good I hunted it down and came across this little book.
My favourite poems would have to be 'The Hollow Men', 'Love song of Prufrock', 'Ash Wednesday' and 'Rannoch, by Glencoe (perfectly captured, drive through Rannoch and you'll see ;-)
Yep, definetly worth a read.
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