The Waste Land, Prufrock, The Hollow Men and Other Poems

By T. S. Eliot

This superb collection of 26 works features the poet's masterpiece "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations, “The Hollow Men,” and the collection Poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Feb 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9780486850641

T. S. Eliot

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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THE WASTE LAND

Prufrock, The Hollow Men and Other Poems

T.S. Eliot

Dover Publications

Garden City, New York

DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

General Editor: Susan L. Rattiner

Editor of This Volume: Janet B. Kopito

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Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2022, is an unabridged republication of poems by T. S. Eliot reprinted from standard editions. A new introductory Note has been prepared specially for this edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965, author.

Title: The waste land, Prufrock, The hollow men and other poems / T. S. Eliot.

Description: Garden City : Dover Publications, 2022. | Series: Dover thrift editions | Includes index. | Summary: This collection of twenty-six works features the poet’s masterpiece, ‘The Waste Land’; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations (‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ ‘Portrait of a Lady,’ ‘Preludes,’ ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night,’ ‘Mr. Apollinax,’ ‘Morning at the Window,’ and others); ‘The Hollow Men’; and the collection Poems (‘Gerontion,’ ‘The Hippopotamus,’ ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales,’ and more)—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021035804 | ISBN 9780486849065 (paperback)

Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PS3509.L43 W355 2022 | DDC 811/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021035804

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Note

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He entered Harvard University in 1906, earning his MA in 1911. After a year at the Sorbonne, in Paris, he returned to Harvard to study for a PhD but left without a degree. Eliot moved to England in 1914; married Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a governess, in 1915 (they separated in 1932, and Eliot remarried in 1957); and taught Latin and French at the Highgate School in London. He later was briefly employed as a clerk with Lloyds Bank.

From 1917 to 1919, Eliot edited the literary magazine The Egoist: An Individualist Review. In 1922, he founded The Criterion, a quarterly review of literature and philosophy, which he also edited, all the while working as an editor and director for the publisher Faber & Faber. It was in the October 1922 issue of The Criterion that his landmark poem, The Waste Land, appeared in print. Eliot became a British subject in 1927 and was confirmed in the Church of England, his religious beliefs influencing and finding reflection in his later poetry and other writings.

Eliot achieved eminence as an essayist writing on literary theory and criticism, as well as on social, philosophical, and theological issues, and also had some success as a playwright, with such works as Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. T. S. Eliot died at his home in London on January 4, 1965.

In The Waste Land (1922), his best-known poem and one of the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century, Eliot contrasts the spiritual malaise of the modern world with the wisdom of myth, legend, Eastern religion, the Bible, William Shakespeare, and the quest for the Holy Grail (all referenced in his Notes on ‘The Waste Land,’ which follows the poem). Prufrock (1917) is both the commonly used title of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the name of the collection of Eliot’s poetry that includes that work and other short poems. Like The Waste Land, Prufrock contains allusions to other literary works, especially those of Dante Alighieri and Shakespeare. Its narrator laments the tentative, ineffectual nature of his existence, querying: "Do I dare / Disturb the universe? . . . Do I dare