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T. S. (Thomas
Stearns) Eliot
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(Born 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri,
Died 1965)
Biography:
Eliot was a student of
philosophy at several prestigious schools: B.A. Harvard 1909, M.A. Harvard1910, Sorbonne
(1910-11), and Oxford (1914-15). He joined the Church of England and became a British
citizen in 1927. He was known for his literary criticisms as well as his poetry and plays.
He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948.
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Cats: The Book of the Musical
Paperback (April 1983) $13.56
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Christianity and Culture
Paperback (June 1960) $8.80
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The Cocktail Party: A
Comedy
Paperback (October 1988) $7.20
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Collected Poems: 1909-1962
Hardcover (December 1963) $14.00
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Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950
Eliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial (The
Waste Land), to the playfully pleasant (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats).
This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of
Eliot's poetry, including the full text of Four Quartets. Winner of the Nobel Prize in
Literature, Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts generally
and this collection makes his genius clear.
Hardcover (December 1952) $24.50
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Confidential
Clerk: A Play
Paperback Centenary edition (December 1964) $6.95
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Criticism in America: Its Function and Status
Hardcover (September 1973) $300.00
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Eliot: Poems and Prose
T. S. Eliot was the dominant force in twentieth-century British
and American poetry. With poems such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, he
introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the
English-speaking world. With his masterpiece The Waste Land, he almost
single-handedly ushered an entire poetic culture into the modern world. And with his
enormously influential essays he set the canonical standards to which writers and critics
of poetry have adhered throughout our era.
Hardcover - 256 pages (May 1998) $10.00
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Elizabethan Essays
Hardcover reprint edition (June 1969) $75.00
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Family Reunion
Paperback (June 1967) $8.00
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Four Quartets
Published in the fiery days of World War II, Four Quartets
stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words
speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent
terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin and error/The only hope,
or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who
then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The
intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only
suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire."
"Series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually
from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; the work is considered to be Eliot's
masterpiece. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a
place name: Burnt Norton (1936), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages
(1941) and Little Gidding (1942). Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of
life are revealed through themes and images deftly woven throughout the four poems. The
work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual
renewal, and the very nature of experience; it is considered the poet's clearest
exposition of his Christian beliefs. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature ,
April 1, 1995)
Paperback (August 1974) $5.60
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Growltiger's Last Stand
"Exuberantly illustrated in full-color spreads. . . Le
Cain's rich colors and patterned backdrops provide an attractive stage for the felines'
actions. . .Delectable." (Booklist). One of Eliot's best children's books,
for 4 to 8 years of age.
Paperback Reprint edition (April 1990) $3.96
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Inventions of the March Hare - Poems 1909-1917
Once regarded as the champion of internationalist culture, in
recent years T. S. Eliot has been reclassified as a racist, a misogynist, and a fascist.
His life has been the subject of numerous critical studies and even one mainstream film, Tom
and Viv, which dissected the intimate details of Eliot's marriage to Vivien
Haigh-Wood. With the publication of Inventions of the March Hare, admirers and
critics of Eliot will gain new insight into the poet as a young man. The 40 poems
contained in this volume were all written between the years 1909 and 1917, a period during
which Eliot graduated from Harvard, spent a year in France, studied Buddhism and Sanskrit
at Cambridge University, met Ezra pound, and married Vivien.
These poems reveal a great deal about T. S. Eliot, the man and
the poet. His borrowings from other poets are often apparent (an older Eliot once
declared: "immature poets imitate; mature poets steal"), as are the repressed
scatological, sexual, and neurotic impulses that would have been offensive or shocking to
readers of his time. The annotations by editor Christopher Ricks add to our understanding
of the poems themselves and what they expose about their author's complicated psyche.
"Here, then, is the latest Eliot, the Eliot of nerves and
neurosis, an Eliot for our time, perhaps, who is also deeply the Eliot of his own time. In
its expressions of extremity and contempt, Inventions of the March Hare restores
for contemporary readers some sense of modernism's original edge of vital instability, of
that aura of aggressive strangeness and experimentalism . . . This Eliot, the Eliot of
nervous disease and sexual terror, is a hypercultivated sufferer, a poet whose writing
articulates with dreamlike clarity not the perfections of European and American culture
but its chronic anguish, a medium who transmits through his trembling fingertips not the
music of personal evil but of fantasies and sicknesses widely shared." (Nicholas
Jenkins, The New York Times Book Review)
"When Eliot sold a notebook containing miscellaneous early
work to the collector John Quinn in 1922, he wrote, "You will find a great many sets
of verse which have never been printed and which I am sure you will agree never ought to
be printed ... I beg you fervently to keep them to yourself and see that they never are
printed." So much for an author's sensible intentions. Here they all are, the trial
runs and the discards, immersed in a scholarly paraphernalia that runs all the way to the
color of Eliot's ink. Appendix A, however, does offer significant information. It proves
that comic dirty verse is a genre for which Eliot had no talent." (Phoebe Lou
Adams, The Atlantic Monthly)
Paperback - 472
pages (April 1998) $12.00
Hardcover - 472
pages 1 Us Ed edition (March 1997) $21.00 (shown)
Hardcover
(September 1996) $75.00
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John
Dryden, the Poet, the Dramatist, the Critic; Three Essays
Hardcover (June 1968) $75.00
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Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of
F.H. Bradley
Hardcover Reprint edition (November 1989) $52.00
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The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1898-1922 (Vol. 1)
This first volume of Eliot's correspondence covers his childhood
in St. Louis, Missouri, through 1922, when he married and settled in England. The contents
have been assembled by his widow, Valerie, from collections, libraries, and private
sources worldwide. Published on the centenary of Eliot's birth.
Hardcover 1st edition (September 1988) $29.95
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The Letters of T.S.
Eliot (Vol. 2)
Hardcover Vol 2 (1999) $22.00
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Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Hardcover (December 1976) $16.95 |
Mr.
Mistoffelees; With, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
Hardcover - 28 pages (March 1991)
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Murder in the Cathedral
Paperback (December 1964) $5.60
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
An interesting collection of poems about cats.
Hardcover - 56
pages illustrated edition (October 1984) $10.50 (shown above right)
Paperback -
unillustrated edition (October 1984) $5.60 (shown above center)
Paperback - 56
pages illustrated edition (September 1982) $5.60 (shown above right)
Hardcover - 46
pages unillustrated edition (November 1939) (shown above left)
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Selected Poems
Paperback (October 1988) $6.40
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Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot
Paperback (November 1975) $9.60
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To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings
Paperback - 188 pages Reprint edition (March 1992)
$10.95
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The Use of Poetry and
the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relationship of Criticism to Poetry in England
Paperback - 149 pages Reprint edition (October 1986)
$11.20
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry
Paperback Reprint edition (May 1996) $12.00
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The Varieties of
Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the
Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University
Hardcover - 343 pages (May 1994) $20.97
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The Waste Land
Long poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922, first in London in The
Criterion (October), next in New York City in The Dial (November), and
finally in book form, with footnotes by Eliot. The 433-line, five-part poem was dedicated
to fellow poet Ezra Pound, who helped condense the original manuscript to nearly half its
size. It was one of the most influential works of the 20th century. The Waste Land
expresses with great power the disillusionment and disgust of the period after World War
I. In a series of fragmentary vignettes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for
the Grail, it portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, and of human
beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption. The depiction of spiritual
emptiness in the secularized city, the decay of urbs aeterna (the "eternal
city"), is not a simple contrast of the heroic past with the degraded present; it is
rather a timeless, simultaneous awareness of moral grandeur and moral evil. The poem
initially met with controversy as its complex and erudite style was alternately denounced
for its obscurity and praised for its modernism. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of
Literature , April 1, 1995)
When it was first published in 1922, The Waste Land
generated enormous and bitter controversy and was even rumored to be a hoax. Over time, it
has come to be recognized as the most important and influential poem written in English in
the 20th century. This special 75th anniversary edition includes the complete text of
Eliot's masterpiece.
Paperback - 47 pages 75th anniversary edition (March
1997) $3.20 ACTOR'S
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The Waste
Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra
Pound
Paperback (February 1993) $16.00
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The Waste Land and
Other Poems
Contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early
peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste Land, which has long
been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements
from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a
fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the
aftermath of WWI. Early poems in this text include Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus,
The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus and Sweeny
Among the Nightingales.
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1998) $1.00 (shown above middle) ACTOR'S
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