The Poems of T. S. Eliot

<i>The Poems of T. S. Eliot</i> is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot's youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. This second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued, <i>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</i> and his translation of Perse's <i>Anabase</i>, moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and published. <i>The Poems of T. S. Eliot</i> is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and for study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from <i>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock</i> and <i>The Waste Land</i> through to <i>Four Quartets</i>