Selected Poems

by T. S. Eliot

Overview

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot’s early work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156806473
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/18/1967
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	663,232
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.34(d)
Age Range:	12 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 and Other Observations
	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	11
	Portrait of a Lady	17
	Preludes	22
	Rhapsody on a Windy Night	25
	Poems 1920
	Gerontion	31
	Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	34
	Sweeney Erect	36
	A Cooking Egg	38
	The Hippopotamus	40
	Whispers of Immortality	42
	Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	44
	Sweeney Among the Nightingales	46
	The Waste Land
I	The Burial of the Dead	51
II	A Game of Chess	54
III	The Fire Sermon	58
IV	Death by Water	63
V	What the Thunder Said	64
	Notes	68
	The Hollow Men	75
	Ash-Wednesday	81
	Ariel Poems
	Journey of the Magi	97
	A Song for Simeon	99
	Animula	101
	Marina	103
	Choruses from 'The Rock'
Chorus I107
Chorus II112
Chorus III115
Chorus VII118
Chorus IX122
Chorus X125