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Complete Poems and Plays (Hardcover)

By: T. S. Eliot (Author)


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"Upon this emotion [nostalgia] Eliot's austere and even agonized metaphysical structures have been splendidly designed. Stricture is not a misprint for structure. For, as time goes by, we see him as a great but narrow poet. Longing is an experience of the soul, but to long is to be too occupied for the entertaining of other kinds of experience. Eliot is an American Puritan: he prejudges experience."

Publisher's note

This book is made up of six individual titles: Four Quartets, Collected Poems: 1909-1935, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and The Cocktail Party.

Annotation

As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented without explanation of their relationship to each other. His poetry is also significant for the way in which it refers to past works of literature, history, and philosophy, many of them obscure, as a way of enriching not only its own meaning but the function of language itself. Eliot was also interested in preserving the vast cultural heritage from the past that underlies every work of art. Oddly enough, however, despite Eliot's famous "obscurity" and the vast trove of scholarship on which he unhesitatingly drew, his poetry is powerful enough in its rhythm and in its imagery to make itself clear and meaningful to the general reader.



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