The Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot, 1909–1965 (105 Works): From Prufrock to Four Quartets. Illustrated Edition, livre ebook

The Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot, 1909–1965 (105 Works): From Prufrock to Four Quartets. Illustrated Edition offers readers a definitive collection of one of the most influential voices of 20th-century poetry.
The collection begins with Eliot’s iconic debut, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a haunting and ironic portrait of modern alienation. It then moves through Gerontion, The Waste Land, and The Hollow Men—works that defined the disillusionment and fragmentation of the post–World War I era. Eliot’s verse in this period blends sharp imagery with myth, philosophy, and cultural references, demanding—and rewarding—close reading.
Later sections include Ash Wednesday and the deeply spiritual Four Quartets, in which Eliot explores time, faith, redemption, and the search for stillness amid chaos. Also featured are lesser-known works: the whimsical Ariel Poems, unfinished fragments like Sweeney Agonistes, choruses from The Rock, and personal occasional poems that reveal Eliot’s private and public sensibilities. This edition brings together 105 poetic works, many of them previously scattered across various publications, now unified in a single, elegant volume.
Ideal for both scholars and casual readers, this illustrated edition not only preserves Eliot’s textual precision but enriches the experience with artwork that evokes the themes, tone, and imagery of his poetry. The Complete Poems of T. S. Eliot, 1909–1962 is both a literary monument and a living testament to a poet whose voice continues to resonate across generations.
Contents:
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
-Portrait of a Lady
-Preludes
-Rhapsody on a Windy Night
-Morning at the Window
-The Boston Evening Transcript
-Aunt Helen
-Cousin Nancy
-Mr. Apollinax
-Hysteria
-Conversation Galante
-La Figlia che Piange
•Poems, 1920
-Gerontion
-Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
-Sweeney Erect
-A Cooking Egg
-Le Directeur
-Mélange Adultère de Tout
-Lune de Miel
-The Hippopotamus
-Dans le Restaurant
-Whispers of Immortality
-Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
-Sweeney among the Nightingales
•The Waste Land (1922)
•The Hollow Men (1925)
•Ash Wednesday (1930)
•Ariel Poems (1927-1954)
-Journey of the Magi
-A Song for Simeon
-Animula
-Marina
-The Cultivation of Christmas Trees
•Coriolan (1931)
•Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)
-The Naming of Cats
-The Old Gumbie Cat
-Growltiger’s Last Stand
-The Rum Tum Tugger
-The Song of the Jellicles
-Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
-Old Deuteronomy
-Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
-Mr. Mistoffelees
-Macavity: The Mystery Cat
-Gus: The Theatre Cat
-Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town
-Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
-The Addressing of Cats
-Cat Morgan Introduces Himself
•Contributions to ‘The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross’ (1939)
-The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs
-Billy M’Caw: The Remarkable Parrot
•Four Quartets (1943)
-Burnt Norton
-East Coker
-The Dry Salvages
-Little Gidding
•Miscellaneous Verses
-Poems Written in Early Youth
-A Fable for Feasters
-A Lyric
-Song: If space and time, as sages say
-At Graduation 1905
-Song: When we came home across the hill
-Before Morning
-Circe’s Palace
-On a Portrait
-Song: The moonflower opens to the moth
-Nocturne
-Humouresque
-Spleen
-Ode
-The Death of Saint Narcissus
-Sweeney Agonistes
-Fragment of a Prologue
-Fragment of an Agon
-Minor Poems
-Eyes that last I saw in tears
-The wind sprang up at four o’clock
-Five-Finger Exercises
-Landscapes
-Lines for an Old Man
-Choruses from ‘The Rock’ 1934
-Defence of the Islands
-A Note on War Poetry
-To the Indians who Died in Africa
-To Walter de la Mare
-A Dedication to my Wife