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Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliotis the authoritative edition of one ofour greatest poets, scrupulouslyedited by Christopher Ricks and JimMcCue. It provides, for the firsttime, a fully scrutinized text ofEliot’s poems, carefully restoringaccidental omissions and removingtextual errors that have crept in overthe full century in which Eliothas been so frequently printed andreprinted.The edition alsopresents many poems from Eliot’s youthwhich were published onlydecades later, as well as others that saw onlyprivate circulation inhis lifetime, of which dozens are collected forthe first time. Toaccompany Eliot’s poems, Christopher Ricksand Jim McCue have provideda commentary that illuminates the creativeactivity that came toconstitute each poem, calling upon drafts,correspondence and otheroriginal materials to provide a vivid accountof the poet’s workingprocesses, his reading, his influences and hisrevisions. The first volume respects Eliot’s decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fiftyyearsago.There follow in this first volume the uncollected poemsfrom hisyouth that he had chosen to publish, along with such otherpoems ascould be considered suitable for publication.The secondvolume openswith the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued,Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse’s Anabase, 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. The Poems of T. S. Eliot 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 andforstudy. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets.
