Finally, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a textual history that contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse. Each of these sections has its own commentary. Different again are the verses informal, improper, or clubmanlike.

The second volume opens with the two books of verse of other kinds that Eliot issued, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and his translation of St.-John Perse’s Anabase. The volume concludes with the commentary on all of these poems. This is followed by poems uncollected but either written for or suitable for publication, and by a new reading text of the drafts of The Waste Land.

Lindfield Learning Hub Suite 14, 12-18 Tryon Rd Lindfield NSW 2070. This first volume respects Eliot’s decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909–1962 as he arranged and issued it, shortly before his death fifty years ago. T.S Eliot Selected Poems MSRP: 24.99 SKU: 9780571057061 Info. Thanks to the family and friends who recognized Eliot’s genius and preserved his writings from an early age, the archival record is exceptionally complete, enabling us to follow in unique detail the progress of a mind that never ceased exploring. Calling upon Eliot’s critical writings, as well as his drafts, letters, and other original materials, they illustrate not only the breadth of Eliot’s interests and the range of his writings, but how it was that the author of 'Gerontion' came to write 'Triumphal March' and then Four Quartets. Alfred Prufrock.' As well as the masterpieces, the edition contains the poems of Eliot’s youth, which were rediscovered only decades later, others that circulated privately during his lifetime, and love poems from his final years, written for his wife Valerie Eliot.Ĭhristopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the imaginative life of each poem. Eliot’s Poems establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909–1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot’s astonishing debut, 'The Love Song of J. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL, Pegasus Award for Criticism of the Poetry Magazine

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