Book description
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the
defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The
Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback,
includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and
Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such
literary landmarks as The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical
Cats and Murder in the Cathedral. 'Each year Eliot's presence
reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised
to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came
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.
