T. S. Eliot's Complete Works



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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. Its contents are widely known as the basis for the record-setting musical Cats. The poems...

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Christianity And Culture

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, commonly known as Prufrock, is a poem by the American poet, T. S. Eliot, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915. Described as a "drama of literary anguish," it presents a stream of...

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Ash Wednesday

"Ash Wednesday" (sometimes "Ash-Wednesday") is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930 (see 1930 in poetry), this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith...

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The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a 434 line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt...

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Four Quartets

Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published individually over a six-year period. The first poem, "Burnt Norton", was written and published with a collection of his early works following the production of Eliot's...

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Gerontion

Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has...

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The Journey of the Magi

In the 20th century, T. S. Eliot wrote a poem entitled Journey of the Magi. The poem was written after Eliot's conversion to Christianity and confirmation in the Church of England in 1927 and published in Ariel Poems in 1930. The poem is an account...

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The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men (1925) is a major poem by T. S. Eliot, the Nobel-Prize-winning modernist poet. Its themes are, like many of Eliot's poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognised to be concerned most with post-War Europe under the Treaty of...

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Sweeney Among the Nightingales

"Sweeney Among the Nightingales" is a poem by T. S. Eliot, published in his 1920 anthology of poetry, Poems. The action in the poem centers on a person, whom Eliot suggests is perhaps a common zookeeper, named "Apeneck Sweeney"; however, what takes...

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Hamlet and His Problems

"Hamlet and His Problems" is a 1920 essay by T. S. Eliot which offers a critical reading of Hamlet. Originally published in Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, this essay introduced his concept of objective correlative. The...

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Cats

Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard "Memory." The musical first opened in the West End in 1981 and then on Broadway in 1982, in each case...

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The Rock

"The Rock" is a 1934 play by T. S. Eliot. From the cover of the Faber & Faber first edition of the published play:A pageant play written for performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May - 9...

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Burnt Norton

"Burnt Norton" (1935) is a poem by Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. It is the first of four related poems collectively called the "Four Quartets", which Eliot considers his masterpiece.The poem is named after a manor in...

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The Dry Salvages

"The Dry Salvages" (1941) is a poem by Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. It is the third of four related poems collectively called the "Four Quartets", which Eliot considers his masterpiece.The poem's title references a group...

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Little Gidding

"Little Gidding" (1942) is a poem by Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. It is the last of four related poems collectively called the "Four Quartets", which Eliot considers his masterpiece.The poem is named after a village in...

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Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

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Sweeney Erect

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A Cooking Egg

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Le Directeur

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Mélange adultère de tout

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Lune de Miel

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The Hippopotamus

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Dans le Restaurant

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Whispers of Immortality

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Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

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Preludes

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Rhapsody on a Windy Night

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Morning at the Window

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The Boston Evening Transcript

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Aunt Helen

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Cousin Nancy

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Mr. Apollinax

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Hysteria

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Conversation Galante

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La Figlia Che Pianga

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Collected Poems, 1909-1962

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Tradition and the individual talent

"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary theorist T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published, in two parts, in "The Egoist" (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, "The Sacred Wood" (1920)....

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The Family Reunion

The Family Reunion is a play by T. S. Eliot. Written mostly in blank verse, it incorporates elements from Greek drama and mid-twentieth-century detective plays to portray the hero's journey from guilt to redemption. The play was unsuccessful when...

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Murder in the Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral is a poetic drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a clerk who was an...

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East Coker

East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modeled after Burnt Norton. It was finished during early 1940 and printed for the Easter edition of the 1940 New...