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About the book:
The Waste Land, Hollow Men the essential Eliot in one slim, indispensable volume.
Condition:
Good secondhand condition.
Some wear to cover.
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About the author:
T.S. Eliot (18881965)
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Thomas Stearns Eliot came from a distinguished New England family with deep Unitarian roots. He studied at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Oxford, but it was his move to England in 1914and his eventual adoption of British citizenship in 1927that defined his life and work. A poet, playwright, critic, and editor (notably at Faber & Faber), Eliot became the central figure of English-language literary modernism.
His early poetry, beginning with the revolutionary The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), introduced a new voice: ironic, fragmented, urban, and psychologically penetrating. With The Waste Land (1922), a shattered masterpiece of allusion, myth, and broken voices, Eliot captured the despair, sterility, and spiritual crisis of the post-World War I world more powerfully than any other writer. Later, in the austere and deeply religious Four Quartets (19351942), he turned toward themes of time, redemption, and transcendence, achieving a hard-won serenity.
Eliots style is unmistakable: dense with literary and religious echoes (Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, Sanskrit, and French Symbolists like Jules Laforgue), yet capable of sudden, haunting musicality. He believed poetry should be impersonal, an escape from emotion rather than its direct expression, and he championed rigorous critical intelligence alongside formal innovation.
Major works include:
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, Eliot exerted enormous influence on 20th-century poetry and criticism. He shaped the taste of generations through both his verse and his essays (notably Tradition and the Individual Talent). Poets as different as W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and countless others bear his mark. Even those who rebelled against him had to reckon with the standards he set.
A reserved, formally dressed figure who seemed the very image of the English man of letters, Eliot remains one of the most important and quietly revolutionary voices in modern literaturehaunted by the ruins of civilization, yet always listening for the possibility of grace.
