Synopses & Reviews
This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios.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.
Synopsis
A collection of unpublished poetry written by T.S. Eliot in his twenties, available now for the first time. "Inventions of the March Hare" contains works ranging from the urban pastoral to satire, on subjects as various as love and ennui, desire and manners. Also included is an unused passage from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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.