A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. EliotA unique guide designed to help the readers of Eliot's personally chosen collection, Selected Poems. Specific information about the poems and their development is included, as is a chronology of the poet's life and work. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Note on Dating | 42 |
Portrait of a Lady | 50 |
Preludes | 59 |
POEMS 1920 | 68 |
Bleistein with a Cigar | 79 |
Sweeney Erect | 93 |
The Hippopotamus | 106 |
A Game of Chess | 156 |
79 | 158 |
Death by Water | 181 |
106 | 195 |
THE HOLLOW MEN | 201 |
ASHWEDNESDAY | 219 |
125 | 230 |
ARIEL POEMS | 235 |
Mr Eliots Sunday Morning Service | 114 |
Sweeney Among the Nightingales | 121 |
The Burial of the Dead | 138 |
43 | 147 |
138 | 243 |
CHORUSES FROM THE ROCK | 249 |
Select Bibliography | 265 |
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