Eliot: Poems Edited by Peter Washington

by Eliot, T. S.; Washington, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780375401855
• ISBN10: 0375401857
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-26
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," he introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the English-speaking world. With his masterpiece "The Waste Land," he almost single-handedly ushered an entire poetic culture into the modern world. And with his enormously influential essays he set the canonical standards to which writers and critics of poetry have adhered throughout our era.

Author Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet.

Table of Contents

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 13
Portrait of a Lady	p. 20
Preludes	p. 26
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	p. 29
Morning at the Window	p. 33
The Boston Evening Transcript	p. 34
Aunt Helen	p. 35
Cousin Nancy	p. 36
Mr. Apollinax	p. 37
Hysteria	p. 39
Conversation Galante	p. 40
La Figlia Che Piange	p. 41
Gerontion	p. 45
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	p. 49
Sweeney Erect	p. 51
A Cooking Egg	p. 54
Le Directeur	p. 56
Melange Adultere de Tout	p. 57
Lune de Miel	p. 58
The Hippopotamus	p. 59
Dans le Restaurant	p. 61
Whispers of Immortality	p. 63
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	p. 65
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	p. 67
The Waste Land I. The Burial of the Dead	p. 73
The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess	p. 77
The Waste Land III. The Fire Sermon	p. 82
The Waste Land IV. Death by Water	p. 88
The Waste Land V. What the Thunder Said	p. 89
Notes on The Waste Land	p. 94
Essays
Reflections on Vers Libre	p. 105
Tradition and the Individual Talent	p. 117
Hamlet	p. 131
The Perfect Critic	p. 141
The Metaphysical Poets	p. 159
The Function of Criticism	p. 175
Andrew Marvell	p. 193
Ulysses, Order and Myth	p. 213
Index of first lines	p. 220
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