Publisher's Synopsis
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 1965) was an British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century's major poets. Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry. In this book: Poems The Waste Land Prufrock and Other Observations Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
