A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot
by Southam, B. C.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-01
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Summary
A 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.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| Preface to the Sixth Edition | |
| Biographical Table | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Sources | p. 39 |
| Note on Dating | p. 42 |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | p. 45 |
| Portrait of a Lady | p. 58 |
| Preludes | p. 61 |
| Rhapsody on a Windy Night | p. 63 |
| Gerontion | p. 68 |
| Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar | p. 79 |
| Sweeney Erect | p. 93 |
| A Cooking Egg | p. 98 |
| The Hippopotamus | p. 106 |
| Whispers of Immortality | p. 109 |
| Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service | p. 114 |
| Sweeney Among the Nightingales | p. 121 |
| The Waste Land: I The Burial of the Dead | p. 138 |
| The Waste Land: II A Game of Chess | p. 156 |
| The Waste Land: III The Fire Sermon | p. 164 |
| The Waste Land: IV Death by Water | p. 181 |
| The Waste Land: V What the Thunder Said | p. 184 |
| The Hollow Men | p. 201 |
| Ash-Wednesday | p. 219 |
| Journey of the Magi | p. 236 |
| A Song for Simeon | p. 240 |
| Animula | p. 243 |
| Marina | p. 246 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus I | p. 251 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus II | p. 253 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus III | p. 253 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus VII | p. 254 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus IX | p. 255 |
| Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus X | p. 256 |
| The Composition of The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men' and Ash-Wednesday | p. 257 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 265 |
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