Synopses & Reviews
This volume includes the title poem as well as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “Ash Wednesday,” “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” and other poems from Eliots early and middle work. “Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English” (Edmund Wilson).
Synopsis
This volume includes the title poem as well as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, Ash Wednesday, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, and other poems from Eliot s early and middle work. Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English (Edmund Wilson).
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Synopsis
The collected poems of T. S. Eliot, one of the great poets (Robert Pinsky), including The Waste Land, his most celebrated, era-defining poem
Waste Land and Other Poems compiles the crucial work at the heat of the Modernist movement. Along with the title poem, this volume includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and other selections from Eliot's early and middle work.
Synopsis
This volume includes the title poem as well as “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, ” “ Gerontion, ” “ Ash Wednesday, ” “ Sweeney Among the Nightingales, ” and other poems from Eliot’ s early and middle work. “ Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English” (Edmund Wilson).
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.