Collected Poems, 1909-1962

by Eliot, T. S.

• ISBN13: 9780151189786
• ISBN10: 0151189781
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1963-09-25
• Publisher: HARPER

Summary

Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliots poetry that he wished to preserve.

Author Biography

T. S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888. At eighteen he entered Harvard and following graduation went abroad, and later taught in a boys' school briefly before spending eight years in Lloyds Bank in London. In 1925 he entered book publishing, and at the time of his death, on January 4, 1965, he was a director of the English firm Faber and Faber. In 1948, King George VI bestowed the Order of Merit on him, and that same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature

Table of Contents

Prufrock--1917	p. 1
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 3
Portrait of a Lady	p. 8
Preludes	p. 13
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	p. 16
Morning at the Window	p. 19
The Boston Evening Transcript	p. 20
Aunt Helen	p. 21
Cousin Nancy	p. 22
Mr. Apollinax	p. 23
Hysteria	p. 24
Conversation Galante	p. 25
La Figlia che Piange	p. 26
Poems--1920	p. 27
Gerontion	p. 29
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	p. 32
Sweeney Erect	p. 34
A Cooking Egg	p. 36
Le Directeur	p. 38
Melange Adultere de Tout	p. 39
Lune de Miel	p. 40
The Hippopotamus	p. 41
Dans le Restaurant	p. 43
Whispers of Immortality	p. 45
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	p. 47
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	p. 49
The Waste Land--1922	p. 51
The Burial of the Dead	p. 53
A Game of Chess	p. 56
The Fire Sermon	p. 60
Death by Water	p. 65
What the Thunder Said	p. 66
Notes on 'The Waste Land'	p. 70
The Hollow Men--1925	p. 77
Ash-Wednesday--1930	p. 83
Because I do not hope to turn again	p. 85
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree	p. 87
At the first turning of the second stair	p. 89
Who walked between the violet and the violet	p. 90
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent	p. 92
Although I do not hope to turn again	p. 94
Ariel Poems	p. 97
Journey of the Magi--1927	p. 99
A Song for Simeon--1928	p. 101
Animula--1929	p. 103
Marina--1930	p. 105
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees--1954	p. 107
Unfinished Poems	p. 109
Sweeney Agonistes	p. 111
Fragment of a Prologue	p. 111
Fragment of an Agon	p. 118
Coriolan	p. 125
Triumphal March--1931	p. 125
Difficulties of a Statesman	p. 127
Minor Poems	p. 131
Eyes that last I saw in tears	p. 133
The wind sprang up at four o'clock	p. 134
Five-finger exercises	p. 135
Lines to a Persian Cat	p. 135
Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier	p. 135
Lines to a Duck in the Park	p. 136
Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre	p. 136
Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg	p. 137
Landscapes	p. 138
New Hampshire	p. 138
Virginia	p. 139
Usk	p. 140
Rannoch, by Glencoe	p. 141
Cape Ann	p. 142
Lines for an Old Man	p. 143
Choruses From 'the Rock'--1934	p. 145
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven	p. 147
Thus your fathers were made	p. 152
The Word of the Lord came unto me, saying	p. 155
There are those who would build the Temple	p. 158
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart	p. 159
It is hard for those who have never known persecution	p. 160
In the beginning God created the world	p. 162
O Father we welcome your words	p. 165
Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears	p. 167
You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned	p. 169
Four Quartets	p. 173
Burnt Norton--1935	p. 175
East Coker--1940	p. 182
The Dry Salvages--1941	p. 191
Little Gidding--1942	p. 200
Occasional Verses	p. 211
Defense of the Islands	p. 213
A Note on War Poetry	p. 215
To the Indians Who Died in Africa	p. 217
To Walter de la Mare	p. 219
A Dedication to My Wife	p. 221
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