The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot's poetry.It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.The Waste Land caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Westerncity had become a sterile desert waste land, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality.The Four Quartets express the poet's whole-hearted acceptance of the Christian faith. Each poem describes a meditation which leads to a reconciliation with the burden of the past.

The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems

ELIOT, T.S.

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins Audio

Includes: The Waste Land  The Hollow Men "Journey of the Magi" from the Ariel Poems La Figlia che Piange Landscapes: New Hampshire; Virginia; Usk; Rannoch by Glencoe Cape Ann Morning at the Window Difficulties of a Statesman from Coriolan Sweeney Among the Nightingales Whispers of Immortality Macavity: the Mystery Cat

Essential Eliot CD (Caedmon Essentials)

Self-Help

Relationships

Caedmon

A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work—including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)—continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. 
The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

The Essential T.S. Eliot

United States

Ecco

While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium, one of the twentieth century's most noted literary figures began composing this collection of poetry, which would become the definitive model for much of the world's modern poetic works. Reprint.

The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)

Poetry

Penguin Classics

A Penguin Classic While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, “The Waste Land” is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. This edition includes “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Portrait of a Lady,” “Gerontion,” and more. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Discusses Donne and the evolution of metaphysical poetry

The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933

History & Criticism

Harcourt

A collection of poems and plays by this prominent British writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1948

The Complete Plays of T.S. Eliot

Dramas & Plays

This omnibus collection includes all of the author’s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.

The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950

Harcourt Brace Jovanavich

The Confidential Clerk

HARCOURT, BRACE

The Family Reunion

The Family Reunion is a play by T. S. Eliot. Written mostly in blank verse (though not iambic pentameter), it incorporates elements from Greek drama and mid-twentieth-century detective plays to portray the hero's journey from guilt to redemption. The play was unsuccessful when first presented in 1939, and was later regarded as unsatisfactory by its author, but has been successfully revived since the 1940s. Some critics have thought aspects of the tormented hero reflect Eliot's own difficulties with his estrangement from his first wife. The play is in two acts, set in Wishwood, a stately home in the north of England. At the beginning, the family of Amy, Dowager Lady Monchensey are assembling for her birthday party. She is, as her doctor later explains, clinging on to life by sheer willpower: ...........I keep Wishwood alive To keep the family alive, to keep them together, To keep me alive, and I keep them. Lady Monchensey's two brothers-in-law and three sisters are present, and a younger relation, Mary, but none of Lady Monchensey's three sons. Among other things they discuss the sudden, and not to them wholly unwelcome, death at sea of the wife of the eldest son Harry, the present Lord Monchensey. Neither of the younger sons ever appears, both being slightly injured in motoring accidents, but Harry soon arrives, his first appearance at Wishwood for eight years. He is haunted by the belief that he pushed his wife off the ship. In fact Harry has an alibi for the time, but whether he killed her or not he wished her dead and his feelings of guilt are the driving force in the rest of the play…

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The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems

Essential Eliot CD (Caedmon Essentials)

The Essential T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)

The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)

The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933

The Complete Plays of T.S. Eliot

The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950

The Confidential Clerk

The Family Reunion