Book excerpt: 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 Collections Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) Poems, 1920 The 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 Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Plays The Rock (1934) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) The Family Reunion (1939) The Cocktail Party (1949) The Confidential Clerk (1953) The Elder Statesman (1959) The Prose Eeldrop 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 Williams Introduction to ‘Pascal’s Pensées’ (1958)