Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot

Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot

by T. S. Eliot (Author)

Synopsis

Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and Murder in the Cathedral. 'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 608
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Oct 2004

ISBN 10: 0571225160
ISBN 13: 9780571225163
Book Overview: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot, containing such masterpieces of twentieth-century poetry and drama as 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', The Waste Land, the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Murder in the Cathedral, and much else besides.

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'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes
Author Bio
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.