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by: T. S. Eliot
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780151211852
ISBN: 015121185X
Label: Harcourt
Manufacturer: Harcourt
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 20, 1952
Publisher: Harcourt
Sales Rank: 62965
Studio: Harcourt
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Eliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial ( The Waste Land), to the playfully pleasant ( Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of Eliot's poetry, including the full text of Four Quartets. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts generally and this collection makes his genius clear.
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Prufrock, yay! Wasteland, boo.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is T.S. Eliot at his best. He depicts an entire generation by painting a beautiful and tragic image of the one main character. Eliot's words are both flowing and concise, which is no small feat, and his metaphors and allusions are well chosen and relevant. This poem is absolutely worth reading several times over.
T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland is like the fourth season of Family Guy. It's more of the same from a source that has produced quality ... Read More
Rating: - For a T.S. Eliot amateur, this was an excellent introduction!!
While I am only an amateur when it comes to poetry, I believe this collection will satisfy any reader looking for a stimulating and engaging experience. I was introduced to T.S. Eliot in my high school English class and read only two of his poems from this collection: one, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and two, The Wasteland. If I had more time to spend with these poems and really analyze them, I would get even more out of them.
TS Eliot portrays an intriguing setting in The ... Read More
Rating: - Eliot Update
Faber and Faber has recently announced they will print "The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot" in a gargantuan seven-volume set!
Also announced the much anticipated, eagerly awaited second volume of Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922 edited by Mrs. Valerie Eliot, as well as a completely revised edition of the first volume which will include nearly 200 letters that has surfaced since the initial printing!
Both the seven-volume set and the second edition letters are due out late 2008. ... Read More
Rating: - Still Point of the Turning World
I'm not at all rating this book five stars; that's my rating for T.S. Eliot's plays. This book was the typical library edition and has everything wrong with it: the cover of an old, wise Eliot (why not a young maverick one?), "Complete" in the title when it's not at all complete, big, heavy, hardback and way too literary looking for the passing reader to crack the cover.
But look how much T.S. Eliot you already know. The Wasteland may be a maddingly obscure poem sequence built around a book ... Read More
Rating: - A pleasure to own!
His language is effortless in its flow and it is conducive to deep meditation in its style. After reading 'Prufrock', and the 'Hollow Men' I got the sense that this is something truly withstanding and classic - one of our bards of the 20th century.
Only a handfull of modern poets stick in my mind - Elliot, Cummings, Rilke, and Yeats are among them!
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