Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, the manuscript was given by Eliot to his benefactor John Quinn. At the same time he sold Quinn a notebook containing about fifty poems written during Eliot's twenties. It was not until 1968...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:480
Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of the century. Like Greek drama...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
Murder in the Cathedralis a poetic drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
The term culture . . . includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
T. S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time favourites of children's literature. Suitable for all ages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
An important collection of T. S. Eliot's literary essays and lectures composed, with one exception, in the 1940s and 1950s. All the material is subsequent to the criticism represented in his standard Selected Essays. In this volume Eliot is concerned solely with individual poets (Virgil...more details Format:Paperback
Included in Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems:The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait of a Lady Preludes Rhapsody on a Windy Night Morning at the Window The Boston Evening Transcript Aunt Helen Cousin Nancy Mr...more details Format:Paperback Pages:48
In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
Obviously something more than a successful play, it is the practical demonstration of a patently conceived theory of dramatic form, and as such of high historical interest.' Times Literary Supplement'Eliot has attempted here something very daring and well worth doing. He has taken the ordinary West End drawing room comedy convention - understatement...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
This collection contains the following:Collected Poems 1909-62 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Poems Written in Early...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:608
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:608
The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist...more details Format:Paperback
T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker...more details Format:Paperback
Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939...more details Format:Paperback
These lovable poems have delighted children since they were written in the 1930s, and inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats. This edition includes illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Format:Paperback Pages:64
This seminal book, Eliot's first collection of literary criticism, appeared in London in 1920, two years before The Waste Land. It contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . .Published in 1922...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is one of Eliot's most influential works. The Four Quartets consists of four long poems...more details Format:CD-Audio