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Title: Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950 by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0-15-121185-X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 20 November, 1952 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the 3 modern greats: Dante, Shakespeare, Eliot
Comment: This authoritative volume of his poetry & plays is essential to every poetry collection. The first poem in his first published book, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, was astonishing to its first audiences & is now known as one of the greatest 20th century poems ever. Read any book of essays that includes 20th century poetry; that poem is talked about in it. But I don't mean to be reviewing as though T. S. Eliot was a man of one poem; he was a writer of such severe genius throughout his career that poetry since him has all been in his shadow. Within 10 years of his career, he had had a profounder influence on poetry as we know it than anybody else. Writer of incredibly dense poems, one might argue that with his wild & totally new ideas about he was the godfather of language poetry, but he was also had a fierce love for tradition, in his self-exile from the U.S. to England.
Rating: 5
Summary: Prometheus of modern poetry
Comment: I became familiar with Eliot's work chronologically, learning something new at each step. "Prufrock" introduced me to modern poetical structure, "The Waste Land" showed me how literary allusion can enrich verse, "Ash-Wednesday" refreshed the world of religious poetry, and the supernal "Four Quartets" was for me a metaphysical insight of the greatest beauty.
Eliot is without a doubt the finest poet of the 20th century, perhaps the finest poet ever. His contributions to the poets who came after him, and to literature in general, are persistently evident. Eliot doesn't always succeed, and many of his poems seem trite and pretentious, but when he succeeds he hits dead on with poetry perfect in form, balance, and sound. There is the man here, the poet as reflected in his own work, but there is also common human experience through looking at history ("The Waste Land") and meditating on Man's relationship with the Divine and the eternal (Ariel Poems, and most of his output after 1928).
HOWEVER, this edition of his "collected works," COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS: 1909-1950 lacks several last poems which can be found in COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1962. I recommend that edition, as tt is worth missing out on Eliot's plays in order to have a truly complete collection of his sublime verse.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh, Go On! You NEED this collection!
Comment: In spite of the drawbacks of the arrangement in this volume (as described by other reviewers infra), this remains a must-have volume for anyone interested in contemporary poetry. T.S. Eliot's *best* works are all collected here, in a readily readable and comprehensible form. I remember reading and re-reading and re-reading my copy as a youngster and it still enjoys both a place of honor on my shelf as well as the even greater honor of frequent use and perusal. Let's face it, you can't come to terms with contemporary poetry without an understanding of T.S. Eliot, and this is probably the best place to start that effort because of the comprehensive (though not exhaustive) nature of this collection. You simply have to have this volume if you are a lover of contemporary poetry.
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Title: T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon ISBN: 0393320936 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0156806541 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 10 November, 1975 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot by A. David Moody ISBN: 0521421276 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 24 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0156177358 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 1960 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot, Michael North ISBN: 0393974995 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.40 |
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