Name: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780156806473

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Presents a collection of some of T. S. Eliot's best-known poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "Whispers of Immortality."

Selected Poems

T. S. Eliot

As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Betjemen, Plath, Hughes and Yeats.

baelgia

There's a slew of anti-semitic poems in the second part that soured the rest of my reading experience. A lot of his poems also felt like they're for the upper-class by the upper-class (expecting his target audience to speak/understand multiple languages, touching on topics that are high up on the hierarchy of needs), which is fine? Just not something I enjoy.

TL;DR: I disagree with his politics, and it's hard to separate art from artist when his art discusses, and even enforces, the very politics I disagree with.

Lindsy Rice

Alejandra 

coriander

"There are no poetic 'subjects' in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of metre and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: 'We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age'. "The main poem in this collection is 'The Waste Land' (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has himself supplied some revealing footnotes which help the reader to cope with the associations and allusions in which the poem is so rich. His theme here, as in most of his other poems, is disillusion with our contemporary civilization, which he contrasts in several of its aspects with the beliefs and practices of other and earlier races. It is a difficult poem to follow and even Mr. Eliot's own sign-posts are sometimes cryptic.