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The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest...
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"T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work--including 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)--continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot's most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume,...
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The most discussed poet of our time, T. S. Eliot is perhaps also the most important figure in the modern poetic tradition. "In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle, "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948 Mr. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry." This book is made up of six individual titles: Four...
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This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. "Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Christopher Ricks.
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The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems is a collection of T.S. Eliot's early poetry. This collection brings together The Waste Land, arguably T. S. Eliot's most famous poem, with the poetry originally published in Prufrock and Other Observations and Poems (1920). This collection of 25 poems in all will provide even the most serious of poetry readers with ample evidence of the genius of T.S. Eliot's work.
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Every child is born with a personality style that begins to emerge and present itself very early on. With 4 areas of preference, we may be similar to or different from our children in each of these areas. Where you find friction is usually where you find the differences. Understanding ways your child best operates in the world will help you nurture your children in their style rather than your own.
As parents, motivating our children in their style...
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The most famous, beautiful, and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot's poetry. It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterizes and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.
The Waste Land caught the imagination of...
11) Selected poems
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"There are no poetic 'subjects' in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of meter and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: 'We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age'.
"The main poem in this collection is 'The Waste Land' (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has...
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Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) is a collection of poems by T.S. Eliot. Published following the successful appearance of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Prufrock and Other Observations established Eliot's reputation as a leading English poet and pioneering literary Modernist.
Opening with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the collection begins with an invocation of Dante, whom...
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The famed series of Trinity College and Johns Hopkins lectures in which the Nobel Prize winner explored history, poetry, and philosophy.
While a student at Harvard in the early years of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets led Eliot, as a poet and critic living in London, to formulate...
14) The Sacred Wood
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The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of the twentieth century's leading English poets, he was also a prolific and highly influential literary critic. This collection, which includes essays on Algernon Charles Swinburne, Hamlet, William Blake, and Dante, is central to Eliot's legacy and vision of art.
In "Tradition and the Individual Talent,"...
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An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry. In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot's verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible "image of its accelerated grimace," in the words of Eliot's friend and mentor Ezra Pound. This twenty-four-poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot's greatest works-including the classic "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"-all of which unveil the desires,...
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