The Waste Land
A poem in five parts - "The burial of the dead", "A game of chess", "The fire sermon", "Death by water" and "What the thunder said". It is a statement of post-war depression and negativity, a protest...
ELIOT, Thomas Stearns
Selected Prose
Eliot collects in this work a group of essays on writers and poets - Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Pascal, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Yeats, Poe and Valéry, Dante, Goethe - and lectures in the United States and...
Murder in the Cathedral
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in 1170 by order of his king after refusing to accept the Constitutions of Clarendon. He fell beneath the swords of his executioners at the foot of the...
Old Possums Book of Practical Cats
A volume of verse for child with a jocular emphasis on the absurd.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in the USA, moved to Oxford and stayed in England till his death in 1965. Eliot became a...