The Waste Land and Other Poems

by Eliot, T. S.; Kermode, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780141180724
• ISBN10: 0141180722
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• 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

Introduction	vii
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxix
Brief Chronology	xxxiii
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)	1	(28)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	3	(6)
Portrait of a Lady	9	(5)
Preludes	14	(3)
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	17	(3)
Morning at the Window	20	(1)
The ``Boston Evening Transcript	21	(1)
Aunt Helen	22	(1)
Cousin Nancy	23	(1)
Mr. Apollinax	24	(2)
Hysteria	26	(1)
Conversation Galante	27	(1)
La Figlia Che Piange	28	(1)
Poems 1920	29	(24)
Gerontion	31	(3)
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	34	(2)
Sweeney Erect	36	(2)
A Cooking Egg	38	(2)
Le Directeur	40	(1)
Melange Adultere de Tout	41	(1)
Lune de Miel	42	(1)
The Hippopotamus	43	(2)
Dans le Restaurant	45	(2)
Whispers of Immortality	47	(2)
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	49	(2)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	51	(2)
The Waste Land (1922)	53	(24)
The Burial of the Dead	55	(2)
A Game of Chess	57	(4)
The Fire Sermon	61	(5)
Death by Water	66	(1)
What the Thunder said	66	(11)
Notes on the Waste Land	71	(6)
Textual Notes	77	(4)
Explanatory Notes	81