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T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's'Man of Letters'whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death. This fourth and final volume from 1951-1966, covers a period of concluding productivity in Eliot's writing. Although his poetry was all but complete, his theatrical and critical work flourished through a decade that included such books as Poetry and Drama (1951), The Frontiers of Criticism (1956) and On Poetry and Poets (1957).

T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's'Man of Letters'whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected Prose presents those works that Eliot allowed to reach print in the order of their final revision or printing. Publishing across four volumes, the series aims to provide an authoritative and clean-text record of Eliot's approved texts and their revisions, beginning with his formative observations, written while he was at high school, and concluding in his final major opus, To Criticize the Critic, published in the months after his death. This third volume collects Eliot's prose from 1935-1950, when his works The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) and The Music of Poetry (1942) would engage the seminal grounds of his Four Quartets, while his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) would appear at the moment he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was a period of experimentation in form and genre, in which writings for the theatre were taking centre stage and he was composing for the first time for children, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

This volume contains some of Eliot's earliest work that did not make the'final cut'when he put together his Collected Poems many years later. The title Ara Vus Prec contains a spelling mistake. It is meant to be Ara Vos Prec, referring to a line by Arnaut Daniel, the great renaissance troubadour poet, who features in Dante's Inferno. The provencal words mean literally'to you I pray'or more loosely'I beg you'and Eliot apologised that he didn't know enough Provencal and that's why he got it wrong. After copies went to print, the'u'was fixed to an'o'including labels being reattached to the spine. Very early and rare Eliot work. (Goodreads)

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism is a collection of literary essays written by T. S. Eliot. Originally published in 1920, these essays explore various aspects of poetry, literary criticism, and the nature of artistic expression. The collection is a significant work that sheds light on Eliot's views on poetry and provides insights into the modernist literary movement.'The Sacred Wood'is significant not only for its exploration of specific poets and literary traditions but also for its broader contributions to the theory of poetry and criticism. Eliot's essays are characterized by their erudition, intellectual rigor, and a desire to reevaluate and rejuvenate literary traditions in the face of a changing cultural landscape. The collection remains a cornerstone in the study of modernist literature and literary criticism.

The Waste Land is a modernist poem written by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1922. It is considered one of the most important and influential poems of the 20th century. The poem is known for its complex structure, rich allusions, and exploration of various themes, including disillusionment, cultural decay, and the search for spiritual renewal in a post-World War I world.

Prufrock and Other Observations is a collection of poems by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1917. The title poem,'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,'is perhaps the most well-known and influential piece in the collection. The poems in this collection are considered to be early examples of Eliot's work and showcase his distinctive modernist style.'Prufrock and Other Observations'is significant for its departure from traditional poetic forms and themes. Eliot's use of modernist techniques, such as fragmentation and allusion, marks a shift in poetic expression during the early 20th century. The collection is a precursor to Eliot's later and more famous works, such as'The Waste Land,'and it provides insights into his evolving poetic style and thematic concerns.

T. S. Eliot wrote numerous poems throughout his career, and the title'Poems'is quite broad, encompassing a range of his works. Eliot's poetry is known for its modernist style, intricate use of language, and exploration of complex themes.

Excerpt:'The three essays composing this small book were written several years ago for publication in the'Times Literary Supplement,'to the editor of which I owe the encouragement to write them, and now the permission to reprint them. Inadequate as periodical criticism, they need still more justification in a book. Some apology, therefore, is required. My intention had been to write a series of papers on the poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: beginning with Chapman and Donne, and ending with Johnson. This forbidden fruit of impossible leisure might have filled two volumes. At best, it would not have pretended to completeness; the subjects would have been restricted by my own ignorance and caprice, but the series would have included Aurelian Townshend and Bishop King, and the authors of'Cooper's Hill'and'The Vanity of Human Wishes,'as well as Swift and Pope. That which dissipation interrupts, the infirmities of age come to terminate. One learns to conduct one's life with greater economy: I have abandoned this design in the pursuit of other policies. I have long felt that the poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even much of that of inferior inspiration, possesses an elegance and a dignity absent from the popular and pretentious verse of the Romantic Poets and their successors. To have urged this claim persuasively would have led me indirectly into considerations of politics, education, and theology which I no longer care to approach in this way. I hope that these three papers may in spite of and partly because of their defects preserve in cryptogram certain notions which, if expressed directly, would be destined to immediate obloquy, followed by perpetual oblivion.'

The anthology'The Greatest British Classics of All Time'presents an unparalleled collection of literary masterpieces that encapsulate the breadth and depth of British literary traditions. This compendium traverses a multitude of genres including gothic horror, romantic poetry, satirical prose, and whimsical fantasy, reflecting the diverse aesthetic styles that have emerged across centuries. Readers will journey through the rich, imaginative worlds of renowned figures such as Shakespeare's timeless reflections on the human condition, Stoker's chilling gothic narratives, and Carroll's fantastical adventures, each offering unique insights into themes of society, morality, and the human psyche. The luminaries featured in this anthology are titans of the British literary canon whose works have significantly influenced and shaped literary discourse. The collection draws from a period marked by profound historical transitions ranging from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution, capturing responses to shifting cultural tides. This diverse mosaic of writers, including the likes of Jane Austen's astute social commentaries, Wilde's witticisms, and Doyle's pioneering detective fiction, embodies the polyphonic voices that have not only enriched British literature but have also resonated globally, highlighting the evolution of narrative forms and thematic explorations. This anthology is a treasure trove for connoisseurs and new readers alike, offering an educational odyssey into the richness of British literature. Through the fascinating interplay of distinct authorial voices and literary styles, it provides a kaleidoscopic view of human experience.'The Greatest British Classics of All Time'is a crucial resource for anyone who seeks to understand the ever-evolving dialogue between past and present within the literary arts, making it an invaluable addition to any literary collection.

In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind. The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.The World was more connected than ever before. Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe. Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay.The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more'and ‘better'and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times.The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was. But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. For our wordsmiths there was much to write about, much to contemplate. Poetry was moving from its grand established forms to experiment with others; The Imagists; The Modernists. Poetry seemed to be everywhere and from everyone. Owen, Mansfield to Millay and McKay. These are but a few of this rich, diverse wave that with mere words bring treasures beyond compare.

An American-English poet, playwright and influential literary critic, T. S. Eliot was a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry, producing important works such as ‘The Waste Land'and ‘Four Quartets'. His work exerted a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920's until late on in the century. His experiments in diction, style and versification helped revitalise English poetry, while his critical essays challenged old orthodoxies and forged new approaches. Eliot was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Eliot's complete poetical and dramatic works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) • Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Eliot's life and works• Concise introductions to the major works• Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts• The complete poetry• Excellent formatting of the poems• Rare poems often missed out of collections• Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry• Easily locate the poems you want to read• The complete plays• Includes a wide selection of Eliot's prose, including all the seminal essays• Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Poetry CollectionsPrufrock and Other Observations (1917)Poems, 1920The Waste Land (1922)The Hollow Men (1925)Ash Wednesday (1930)Ariel Poems (1927-1954)Coriolan (1931)Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)Contributions to ‘The Queen's Book of the Red Cross'(1939)Four Quartets (1943)Miscellaneous Verses The PoemsList of Poems in Chronological OrderList of Poems in Alphabetical Order The PlaysThe Rock (1934)Murder in the Cathedral (1935)The Family Reunion (1939)The Cocktail Party (1949)The Confidential Clerk (1953)The Elder Statesman (1959) The ProseEeldrop and Appleplex (1917)Ezra Pound (1918)The Sacred Wood (1920)Homage to John Dryden (1924)The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge (1926)Dante (1929)Thoughts after Lambeth (1931)Selected Essays (1932)The Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University (1933)Elizabethan Essays (1934)Essays Ancient and Modern (1936)Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948)Introduction to ‘All Hallows'Eve'(1948) by Charles WilliamsIntroduction to ‘Pascal's Pensées'(1958)

Lambeth Conferences, international meetings of Anglican bishops, are held approximately every 10 years. Eliot's essay addresses the 1930 Lambeth Conference.

This superb collection of 26 works features the poet's masterpiece'The Waste Land'; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations, “The Hollow Men,” and the collection Poems.

The Waste Land (1922) is a poem by T.S. Eliot. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Eliot took a leave of absence from his job at a London bank to stay with his wife Vivienne at the coastal town of Margate. He worked on the poem during these months before showing an early draft to Ezra Pound, who helped edit the poem toward publication. The Waste Land, dedicated to Pound, includes hundreds of quotations of and allusions to such figures as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Saint Augustine, Chaucer, Baudelaire, and Whitman, to name only a few. Divided into five sections—“The Burial of the Dead;” “A Game of Chess;” “The Fire Sermon;” “Death by Water;” and “What the Thunder Said”—The Waste Land is a complex poem that translates Eliot's fragile emotional state and increasing dissatisfaction with married life into an apocalyptic vision of postwar England. The poem begins with a meditation on despair before moving to a polyphonic narration by figures on the theme. The third section focuses on death and denial through the lens of eastern and western religions, using Saint Augustine as a prominent figure. Eliot then moves from a brief lyric poem to an apocalyptic conclusion, declaring: “He who was living is now dead / We who were living are now dying / With a little patience.” Both personal and universal, global in scope and intensely insular, The Waste Land changed the course of literary history, inspiring countless poets and establishing Eliot's reputation as one of the foremost artists of his generation. This edition of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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 Eliot saw as an important innovator of a polyphonic, referential poetry capable of interrogating and dramatizing the construction and representation of the self. The poem is written from the perspective of a repressed, despairing middle-aged man who meditates on his relationships with women and the regrets he has accumulated with age. In “Preludes,” a poem of urban malaise, Eliot “thinks of all the hands / That are raising dingy shades / In a thousand furnished rooms,” and reaches for an understanding of the world as “some infinitely gentle / Infinitely suffering thing.” Other poems include “Morning at the Window,” another brief vision of city life, “The Boston Evening Transcript,” a satirical reverie on time and community, and “Cousin Nancy,” a humorous lyric celebrating Miss Nancy Ellicott, who unabashedly “smoked, / And danced all the modern dances. Both personal and universal, global in scope and intensely insular, Eliot's poetry changed the course of literary history, inspiring countless poets and establishing his reputation as one of the foremost artists of his generation. This edition of T.S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.

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,” Eliot sheds light on his vision of the role of poet with respect to tradition. Well-versed in classical poetry, Eliot possessed a dynamic vision of poetic tradition that viewed the working poet as an extension of those who came before. The role of the poet, then, is to innovate while remaining in conversation with poets throughout history, to remain “impersonal” by surrendering oneself to a process involving countless others. In “Hamlet and His Problems,” Eliot provides a critical reading of Shakespeare's iconic tragedy arguing that both the play and its main character fail to accomplish the playwright's true intention. Coining the concept of the “objective correlative,” referring to the expression of emotion through a grouping of things or events, Eliot's essay is a landmark in literary scholarship central to the formalist movement known as the New Criticism. Concluding with essays on Blake and Dante, important spiritual and formal forebears for Eliot, The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism is central to T.S. Eliot's legacy as a leading intellectual and artist of the modern era. This edition of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A collection of T.S. Eliot's most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” included here, and most notable, the title poem, “The Waste Land,” his groundbreaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, “The Waste Land” has become one of the most widely studied modernist texts in English literature.Gathering together many of Eliot's major early poems, distinguished Harvard scholar and literary critic Helen Vendler presents an invaluable portrait of T. S. Eliot as a young poet and examines the artistry and craft that made him a Nobel laureate and one of the most significant voices in modern verse.

These four timeless poetry collections showcase the pioneering work of some of America's most beloved and influential poets. New Hampshire by Robert Frost: This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection features some of Frost's most enduring works, all inspired by the cold and wild New Hampshire winter. Along with the title poem, this volume includes “Fire and Ice,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which Frost himself called “my best bid for remembrance.” Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein: Stein's first published work of poetry, this avant-garde meditation on ordinary living is presented in three sections: “Objects,” “Food,” and “Rooms.” Emphasizing rhythm and sonority over traditional grammar, Stein's wordplay has garnered praise from readers and critics alike. Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot: This twenty-four poem volume is a rich collection of Eliot's greatest works—including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “Sweeny Among the Nightingales,” and others—all of which expertly explore the desires, grievances, failures, and heart of modern humanity. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson: This collection of poems by “one of America's greatest and most original poets of all time” includes some of Dickinson's best-known works, reflecting her thoughts on nature, life, death, the mind, and the spirit (Poetry Foundation).

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century's major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay SeshadriT.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, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you'll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity's not there! In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats, which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history and is now a film starring Taylor Swfit, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Francesca Hayward and James Corden. With illustrations by Rebecca Bagley.

Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man. He gives talks, lectures, readings and broadcasts, and even school prize-day addresses. As editor and publisher, his work is unrelenting, commissioning works ranging from Michael Roberts's The Modern Mind to Elizabeth Bowen's anthology The Faber Book of Modern Stories. Other letters reveal Eliot's delight in close friends such as John Hayward, Virginia Woolf and Polly Tandy, and his colleagues Geoffrey Faber and Frank Morley, as well as his growing troupe of godchildren - to whom he despatches many of the verses that will ultimately be gathered up in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). The volume covers his separation from first wife Vivien, and tells the full story of the decision taken by her brother, following the best available medical advice, to commit her to an asylum - after she had been found wandering in the streets of London. All the while these numerous strands of correspondence are being played out, Eliot struggles to find the time to compose his second play, The Family Reunion (1939), which is finally completed in 1938.

T. S. Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats—the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, now made into a major motion picture. This edition features vibrant illustrations by Axel Scheffler.