Description
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
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.
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
Reviews
"'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"
Book Information
ISBN 9780571225163
Author T. S. Eliot
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 652g
Dimensions(mm) 195mm * 126mm * 42mm
