The Complete Poems And Plays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few writers have so thoroughly reshaped the landscape of modern literature as T. S. Eliot, and The Complete Poems and Plays stands as the definitive testament to his towering genius — gathering under one cover every major work from the desolate urban visions of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the epoch-defining fragmentation of The Waste Land, to the spiritual meditations of Four Quartets and the theatrical triumphs of Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party. This comprehensive volume chronicles the full arc of Eliot's artistic evolution, from his early imagist provocations steeped in disillusionment and modernist innovation, through the profound religious conversion that reoriented his later verse toward Anglican faith, mysticism, and redemption. Whether addressing the existential paralysis of the alienated modern subject or the cyclical nature of time and history, Eliot's writing commands with a voice of unmatched intellectual authority and lyrical precision. The literary significance of this collection cannot be overstated — it presents, in one authoritative edition, the complete poetic and dramatic output of a Nobel Prize-winning author whose influence permeates the whole of 20th-century literature and beyond. Published by the distinguished house of Faber and Faber, with whom Eliot was himself a director, this volume carries a singular editorial pedigree. His style — allusive, intertextual, and richly layered with references drawn from Dante, the Upanishads, and Jacobean drama — rewards the attentive reader with inexhaustible depths of meaning, making each return to these pages a new and revelatory encounter.
Author: T. S. Eliot
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few writers have so thoroughly reshaped the landscape of modern literature as T. S. Eliot, and The Complete Poems and Plays stands as the definitive testament to his towering genius — gathering under one cover every major work from the desolate urban visions of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the epoch-defining fragmentation of The Waste Land, to the spiritual meditations of Four Quartets and the theatrical triumphs of Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party. This comprehensive volume chronicles the full arc of Eliot's artistic evolution, from his early imagist provocations steeped in disillusionment and modernist innovation, through the profound religious conversion that reoriented his later verse toward Anglican faith, mysticism, and redemption. Whether addressing the existential paralysis of the alienated modern subject or the cyclical nature of time and history, Eliot's writing commands with a voice of unmatched intellectual authority and lyrical precision. The literary significance of this collection cannot be overstated — it presents, in one authoritative edition, the complete poetic and dramatic output of a Nobel Prize-winning author whose influence permeates the whole of 20th-century literature and beyond. Published by the distinguished house of Faber and Faber, with whom Eliot was himself a director, this volume carries a singular editorial pedigree. His style — allusive, intertextual, and richly layered with references drawn from Dante, the Upanishads, and Jacobean drama — rewards the attentive reader with inexhaustible depths of meaning, making each return to these pages a new and revelatory encounter.