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The Essential T.S. Eliot Kindle Edition

by T. S. Eliot (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri

T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work—including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)—continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature.

The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

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"Vijay Seshadri’s Introduction to Eliot is one of the best things that I’ve ever read on Eliot.  Maybe the best—an astonishment, after a lifetime of reading about Eliot.  Sample: “‘The Waste Land’ is overpowering in its sense of the isolation of the spirit trapped in violent materiality.” I don’t know of another essay that so compellingly sets out how unique, how bold the poems are, how radical." — Frank Bidart

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Natalie Diaz, the founder of the Twiniversity website and director of the Manhattan Twins Club, has been featured widely in the media. She lives in New York City with her husband and their fraternal twins.



Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was named United States Poet Laureate in 2019. The author of eight books of poetry and a memoir, Crazy Brave, her many honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a Tulsa Artist Fellow.



Daniel Halpern is the president and publisher of Ecco. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Tango and Something Shining, and the founder and long-time editor of the literary magazine Antaeus. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and lives in New York City.

Julie Strand is a retired psychologist in Seattle.



T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965) recast 20th century English poetry with a whole new vocabulary of technique, giving voice to a bold, vibrantly original Modernist style. In addition to his poetry, his body of work includes many landmark critical essays, as well as plays such as The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral. In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.



Frank Bidart is the author of Metaphysical Dog (FSG, 2013), Watching the Spring Festival (FSG, 2008), Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and the 2017 National Book Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07V9SN7QL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco (April 14, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 14, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2746 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages
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    Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Rev. Donna M. Swindells
5.0 out of 5 stars A great spiritual poet
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021
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T. S. Eliot was unknown to me during my time as a young student. I found him in spiritual studies by a mentor. What a discovery! This book is the bare-bones of his works. But it contains some masterpieces within.
Take a chance if you love poetry with this one. You may discover wanting more from this poet.
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Dollie Chase
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I love reading poetry and had never read any T. S. Eliot, so this short book with nineteen of his poems and an essay was the perfect starter for me. Before I read it, I did some research on Eliot and I’m glad I did, because his poetry made more sense to me and I was also aware that he wrote a “different type” of poetry than what had come before. He certainly did. I enjoyed his word usage and the way he structured his poems. Some of them were almost like music and I felt compelled to read them aloud, which is what I do when I REALLY enjoy a poem. I will be searching for more of Eliot’s work in the future (which is time present and time past). My personal favorite poet is Portland’s own, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (how I love The Children’s Hour!)
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