The Waste Land and Other Poems

by Eliot, T. S.; Kermode, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780142437315
• ISBN10: 014243731X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-25
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This volume includes the title poem as well as " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " Ash Wednesday, " " Sweeney Among the Nightingales, " and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. " Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English" (Edmund Wilson).

Author Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927, T. S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey

Table of Contents

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 1
Preludes	p. 11
Gerontion	p. 17
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	p. 23
The Waste Land	p. 27
The Burial of the Dead	p. 29
A Game of Chess	p. 32
The Fire Sermon	p. 36
Death by Water	p. 41
What the Thunder Said	p. 42
Notes on 'The Waste Land'	p. 47
Ash-Wednesday	p. 55
Journey of the Magi	p. 67
Marina	p. 71
Landscapes	p. 75
New Hampshire	p. 77
Virginia	p. 77
Usk	p. 78
Two Choruses from 'The Rock'	p. 79
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