Collected Poems, 1909-1962

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.

Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock along with Four Quartets, The Waste Land, and several other poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780151189786
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	09/28/1963
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	40,558
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.03(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Table of Contents

	Prufrock--1917	1
	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	3
	Portrait of a Lady	8
	Preludes	13
	Rhapsody on a Windy Night	16
	Morning at the Window	19
	The Boston Evening Transcript	20
	Aunt Helen	21
	Cousin Nancy	22
	Mr. Apollinax	23
	Hysteria	24
	Conversation Galante	25
	La Figlia che Piange	26
	Poems--1920	27
	Gerontion	29
	Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	32
	Sweeney Erect	34
	A Cooking Egg	36
	Le Directeur	38
	Melange Adultere de Tout	39
	Lune de Miel	40
	The Hippopotamus	41
	Dans le Restaurant	43
	Whispers of Immortality	45
	Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	47
	Sweeney Among the Nightingales	49
	The Waste Land--1922	51
I.	The Burial of the Dead	53
II.	A Game of Chess	56
III.	The Fire Sermon	60
IV.	Death by Water	65
V.	What the Thunder Said	66
	Notes on 'The Waste Land'	70
	The Hollow Men--1925	77
	Ash-Wednesday--1930	83
I.	Because I do not hope to turn again	85
II.	Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree	87
III.	At the first turning of the second stair	89
IV.	Who walked between the violet and the violet	90
V.	If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent	92
VI.	Although I do not hope to turn again	94
	Ariel Poems	97
	Journey of the Magi--1927	99
	A Song for Simeon--1928	101
	Animula--1929	103
	Marina--1930	105
	The Cultivation of Christmas Trees--1954	107
	Unfinished Poems	109
	Sweeney Agonistes	111
	Fragment of a Prologue	111
	Fragment of an Agon	118
	Coriolan	125
I.	Triumphal March--1931	125
II.	Difficulties of a Statesman	127
	Minor Poems	131
	Eyes that last I saw in tears	133
	The wind sprang up at four o'clock	134
	Five-finger exercises	135
I.	Lines to a Persian Cat	135
II.	Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier	135
III.	Lines to a Duck in the Park	136
IV.	Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre	136
V.	Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg	137
	Landscapes	138
I.	New Hampshire	138
II.	Virginia	139
III.	Usk	140
IV.	Rannoch, by Glencoe	141
V.	Cape Ann	142
	Lines for an Old Man	143
	Choruses From 'the Rock'--1934	145
I.	The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven	147
II.	Thus your fathers were made	152
III.	The Word of the Lord came unto me, saying	155
IV.	There are those who would build the Temple	158
V.	O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart	159
VI.	It is hard for those who have never known persecution	160
VII.	In the beginning God created the world	162
VIII.	O Father we welcome your words	165
IX.	Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears	167
X.	You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned	169
	Four Quartets	173
	Burnt Norton--1935	175
	East Coker--1940	182
	The Dry Salvages--1941	191
	Little Gidding--1942	200
	Occasional Verses	211
	Defense of the Islands	213
	A Note on War Poetry	215
	To the Indians Who Died in Africa	217
	To Walter de la Mare	219
	A Dedication to My Wife	221