Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot (PDF)

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There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock along with Four Quartets, The Waste Land, and several other poems.

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⭐I received an older book, yellowish pages, but has full text and enough space to write notes.

⭐Love Eliot since I was a teen . Most of it is brilliant , he and William butler yeats are supreme … wish poetry would thrive again in this manner . What great stuff … Ash Wednesday hollow men wasteland four quartets awesome voice and tone .. must buy for poetry lovers , if u know your stuff !!!

⭐Despite many moves, this has always managed to keep a place on my book shelf. Once you work your way through the classics, they become imprinted in your memories as a part of who you once were and now are. You may not always read them, but you always need them. Other books will come and go, but always is T.S. Eliot. Usual suspects are all here, working from “Love Song” up. Re-reading them as you grow older brings different meanings. Every phase has its own tinge of sorrow and joy. My view now of the ladies talking of Michelangelo has changed from a once distant view to a more familiar hue. Every now and then, it occurs to one to ask “Do I disturb the universe?” Maybe one day you finally will. Buy this not because it is on a required reading list. (Even we can learn from required lists). Rather, buy it to remember when you read poetry for the sake of finding emotion when you had more than enough to share. Make it part of your day, poetry. Everyone has to start somewhere, start here.

⭐T.S, Eliot’s poems never grow old for me. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock invites you to go out as the evening spreads out against the sky, and compares it to a patient etherised on a table. It takes you through the half deserted streets and delights the senses with the smell of food cooking, the pattering sounds of rain falling, the brightness of the street lamps. I could go and on, but I invite the reader to read this for his or her self and find their own enjoyment in it. And then there’s Apeneck Sweeney as he spreads his knees, letting his arms hang down to laugh…in the poem Sweeney among the nightingales. The poem Waste Land. And the Journey of the Magi with camels galled. sore footed, refractory….If you love twentieth century poems, you’ll love this collection from one the masters of that era.

⭐The dust cover is decent, the hardcover seems strong, and the book contains a great many of Eliot’s poems. There is wide room in the margins for the many notes you will need to write to remind yourself what that bit of French means or what play he’s referencing now.I always think it’s silly to review such famous authors on Amazon. Love him or hate him, T.S. Eliot is one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. How could a random Amazon customer have anything new to say about one of the most studied authors in modern history?

⭐This review does not pertain to the poetry but to the production. The Kindle edition is the result of an optical character recognition process that was very inadequate. I don’t know if there is a good digital edition, but this was certainly not.

⭐Fascinating to read through many of Eliot’s lesser works alongside the great ones. One can see the great in juxtaposition with the greater.

⭐I bought it used so there was a little writing in it, but all pages are there, there are no obvious rips, and it was super cheap! Awesome book, the one I got is in fairly good condition, and the price was very reasonable!

⭐I haven’t read the book in full, but no problems yet. The contents page works, search works. If people find it “full of errors” I wonder how familiar they are with Eliot’s work. in 1967, as a sixth former and would-be intellectual, I bought a Faber “Selected Poems” and it seemed full of misspellings and other errors. I set about manually “correcting” these, before realising that they are intended. Eliot uses quotations and obscure references from a wide range of sources. Eg in “A Cooking Egg” there’s the line “Pipit sate upright in her chair”. The “sate” is intended.The only issue is that in the Library, the title is displayed as “Collected Poems 1909-1962 (Faber Paper Co…”, ie it doesn’t mention Eliot’s name. If you choose to sort by author, it appears in your library not under “E” for Eliot but under “C”.

⭐I have dipped into the various poems found here a number of times. I have tried various books that have sought to make them explicable to thick heads like myself. Still much remains that I am unable to comprehend. Yet the final passage of Four Quartets has long been my favorite piece of poetry, seeming to mix with what I have gleaned from St John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart and the wealth of Pure Land Buddhism.Now further passages are bearing fruit. What price “Beneath the bleeding hands we feel, The sharp compassion of the healers art” ? And so much more, on time, redemption, love and mercy.So worth the time and effort. Even when not understood at one level perhaps the beautiful language at times will open us to greater understanding at another. It can perhaps be gathered that Four Quartets is my favorite, but there is so much more here.Priceless.

⭐TS Eliot – collected poemsTS Eliot was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1948, bracketed by the novelists Andre Gide and William Faulkner. He is a staple of English literature classes and one of the cornerstones of modernist writing. Despite his lofty reputation his language is straightforward, it is his references that render make his verse so impenetrable. Where the references are to now obscure texts like the Golden Bough it makes the texts more interesting, the more obviously religious poems lack the same mystery and impact.He has a gift for putting together the smallest number of words to considerable effect, usually a rather bleak modern effect. This is a mixed bag, the major poems are here, along with some occasional verses which have an unconsidered immediacy rare in his works. There are some fragments that are more intriguing than entirely satisfying. No problems with spelling or formatting, though the lack of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats seems rather mean spirited, accordingly marking down to four.

⭐I bought the kindle edition but it is so full of typos and missing letters that it’s unreadable.. what a shame..

⭐Great selection and introduction of T.S Elliot’s poems. Even includes his great wasteland

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