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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 ...
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 ...
The depiction of Jews in some of Eliot's poems has led several critics to accuse him of antisemitism, most forcefully Anthony Julius in his book T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form (1996). [ 110 ] [ 111 ] In " Gerontion ", Eliot writes, in the voice of the poem's elderly narrator, "And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner [of ...
The poem was first published as now known on 23 November 1925, in Eliot's Poems: 1909–1925. [9] Eliot was known to collect poems and fragments of poems to produce new works. This is clear to see in his poems The Hollow Men and " Ash-Wednesday " where he incorporated previously published poems to become sections of a larger work.
Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was published with a collection of his early works (1936's Collected Poems 1909–1935).
The following is a list of books of poetry by T. S. Eliot arranged chronologically by first edition. [Note 1] Some of Eliot's poems were first published in booklet or pamphlet format (such as his Ariel poems.)
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Eliot scholar Grover Smith said of this poem, "If any notion remained that in the poems of 1919 Eliot was sentimentally contrasting a resplendent past with a dismal present, Gerontion should have helped to dispel it." [30] Bernard Bergonzi writes that "Eliot's most considerable poem of the period between 1915 and 1919 is 'Gerontion'". [31]