{"product_id":"the-poems-of-t-s-eliot-volume-i-collected-and-uncollected-poems-9780374235130","title":"The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first volume of the first paperback edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis two-volume critical edition of T. S. Eliot's poems establishes a new text of the \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1909-1962\u003c\/i\u003e, rectifying accidental omissions and errors that have crept in during the century since Eliot's astonishing debut, \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.\" In addition to the masterpieces, \u003ci\u003eThe Poems of T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e contains the poems of Eliot's youth, which were rediscovered only decades later; poems that circulated privately during his lifetime; and love poems from his final years, written for his wife, Valerie. Calling upon Eliot's critical writings as well as his drafts, letters, and other original materials, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the imaginative life of each poem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1909-1962\u003c\/i\u003e as he arranged and issued it shortly before his death. This is followed by poems uncollected but either written for or suitable for publication, and by a new reading text of the drafts of \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e. The second volume opens with the two books of verse of other kinds that Eliot issued: \u003ci\u003eOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnabasis\u003c\/i\u003e, his translation of St.-John Perse's \u003ci\u003eAnabase\u003c\/i\u003e. Each of these sections is accompanied by its own commentary. Finally, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a comprehensive textual history that contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Stearns Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSir \u003cb\u003eChristopher Ricks\u003c\/b\u003e is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having formerly been a professor of English at Bristol and at Cambridge. He is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president (2007-2008). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJim McCue\u003c\/b\u003e, a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, is the author of \u003ci\u003eEdmund Burke and Our Present Discontents\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of Penguin Classics' \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e of Arthur Hugh Clough. His imprint, the Foundling Press, began with the first separate publication of T. S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eEeldrop and Appleplex\u003c\/i\u003e and has printed for the first time writings by Alexander Pope, Ben Jonson, Henry James, and A. E. Housman.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323754615058,"sku":"9780374235130","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef763196-3e2e-4b1a-8613-79f677dc042a.jpg?v=1727661126","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poems-of-t-s-eliot-volume-i-collected-and-uncollected-poems-9780374235130","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}