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  2. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Wikipedia

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    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...

  3. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

  4. T. S. Eliot - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. [1] He was a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse structure.

  5. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Wikipedia

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    In his early drafts, Eliot gave the poem the subtitle "Prufrock among the Women." [11]: 41 This subtitle was apparently discarded before publication. Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Love Song of Har Dyal", first published in Kipling's collection Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). [17]

  6. T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems - Wikipedia

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    T. S. Eliot in 1934. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, Ltd., [1]: pp.50–51 after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922).

  7. Ash Wednesday (poem) - Wikipedia

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    First edition (publ. Faber & Faber) Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism.Published in 1930, the poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God.

  8. Gus: The Theatre Cat - Wikipedia

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    "Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake."

  9. East Coker (poem) - Wikipedia

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    East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton . It was finished during early 1940 and printed in the UK in the Easter edition of the 1940 New English Weekly , and in the US in the May 1940 issue of Partisan Review .