The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume I - by T S Eliot (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The first volume of the first paperback edition of <i>The Poems of T. S. Eliot</i></b> <p/>This two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the <i>Collected Poems 1909-1962</i>, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." In addition to the masterpieces, <i>The Poems of T. S. Eliot</i> contains the poems of Eliot's youth, which were rediscovered only decades later; poems that circulated privately during his lifetime; and love poems from his final years, written for his wife, Valerie. Calling upon Eliot's critical writings as well as his drafts, letters, and other original materials, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the imaginative life of each poem. <p/>This first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his <i>Collected Poems 1909-1962</i> as he arranged and issued it shortly before his death. This is followed by poems uncollected but either written for or suitable for publication, and by a new reading text of the drafts of <i>The Waste Land</i>. The second volume opens with the two books of verse of other kinds that Eliot issued: <i>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</i> and <i>Anabasis</i>, his translation of St.-John Perse's <i>Anabase</i>. Each of these sections is accompanied by its own commentary. Finally, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Thomas Stearns Eliot</b> 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. <p/>Sir <b>Christopher Ricks</b> is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been a professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge. He is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president (2007-2008). <p/><b>Jim McCue</b>, a former editor at <i>The Times</i>, is the author of <i>Edmund Burke and Our Present Discontents</i> and the editor of Penguin Classics' <i>Selected Poems</i> of Arthur Hugh Clough. His imprint, the Foundling Press, began with the first separate publication of T. S. Eliot's <i>Eeldrop and Appleplex</i> and has printed for the first time writings by Alexander Pope, Ben Jonson, Henry James, and A. E. Housman.</p>
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