Selected Poems
Book Details
| Title: | Selected Poems | ||||||||||
| Author: |
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| Published: | 1948 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Penguin Books | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, poetry | ||||||||||
| Description: | “There are no poetic ‘subjects’ in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of metre and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: ‘We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age’.
“The main poem in this collection is ‘The Waste Land’ (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has himself supplied some revealing footnotes which help the reader to cope with the associations and allusions in which the poem is so rich. His theme here, as in most of his other poems, is disillusion with our contemporary civilization, which he contrasts in several of its aspects with the beliefs and practices of other and earlier races. It is a difficult poem to follow and even Mr. Eliot’s own sign-posts are sometimes cryptic.—Excerpt from Dustcover. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Pages: | 111  |
Author Bio for Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Thomas Stearns Eliot, better know as T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) was an American poet and dramatist. He exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the twentieth century. English poetry was revitalised through his experimentation. He threw out the old and created his own style.
The publication of Four Quartets led to his recognition as the greatest living English poet and man of letters, and in 1948 he was awarded both the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature.--Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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