Complete Poems and Plays

Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1971 - American drama - 392 pages

This omnibus collection includes all of the author's early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.

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User Review  - wyclif - LibraryThing

Superlative. It's easy to forget today that Eliot's poetry was innovative in both technique and subject matter when originally written. I can do no better than to quote "Tradition and the Individual ...

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User Review  - JuliaBoechat - LibraryThing

Last part of the Hollow Men: Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the ...

Contents

• PRUFROCK 1917: 3
• POEMS 1920: 21
• THE WASTE LAND 1922: 37
• The Hollow Men 1925: 56
• ARIEL POEMS: 68
• UNFINISHED POEMS: 74
• Coriolan: 85
• CHORUSES FROM THE ROCK: 96
• BURNT NORTON: 117
• THE DRY SALVAGES: 130
• The Naming of Cats: 149
• the Mystery Cat: 163
• INDEX: 389

About the author

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Complete Poems and Plays; American studies collection
• Authors: Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot
• Editor: Harcourt Brace & Company (1993-1999).
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1971
• ISBN: 015121185X, 9780151211852
• Length: 392 pages