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Book Synopsis"The more we know of Eliot, the better."-Ezra Pound
Trade ReviewThese volumes are not merely a monument to T. S. Eliot, they are a blazing demonstration of what literary criticism, at its best, can do for literature. -- John Sutherland Financial Times Monumental... In taking apart Eliot's poems to show where the parts came from, The Poems of T. S. Eliot: The Annotated Text demonstrates that it never was the parts which mattered, but the elusive magic which made up the whole machine. Times Literary Supplement ... So comprehensive and authoritative that one can't imagine their [the editors' notes and commentaries] being superseded... Times Literary Supplement ... One of the great achievements in the literary scholarship of our time. Times Literary Supplement These volumes force a reevaluation of the highs and lows of Eliot's gifts, one that will supersede earlier, outmoded interpretations of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual inhibition and avowals of elitist or conservative slants... Essential. Choice Two all-comprehending new tomes... utterly authoritative. London Review of Books
Table of ContentsTitle Page
This Edition
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations and Symbols
Collected Poems 1909-1962
1. Prufrock and Other Observations
2. Poems (1920)
3. The Waste Land
4. The Hollow Men
5. Ash-Wednesday
6. Ariel Poems
7. Unfinished Poems
8. Minor Poems
9. Choruses from 'The Rock'
10. Four Quartets
11. Occasional Verses
12. Uncollected Poems
13. The Waste Land: An Editorial Composite
14. Commentary
Bibliography
Index of Identifying Titles for Prose by T.S. Eliot
Index to the Editorial Material
Index of Titles and First Lines
About the Authors
By the Same Author
Copyright
