The T. S. Eliot Page

( 1888-1965 )

Major Works

Poetry
Prufrock and Other Observations ( 1917 ).
Poems ( 1919 ).
The Waste Land ( 1922 ).
The Hollow Men ( 1925 ).
Poems ( 1925 ).
Ash Wednesday( 1930 ).
Sweeney Agonistes ( 1932 ).
The Rock ( 1934 ).
Collected Poems ( 1936 ).
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ( 1939 ).
Four Quartets ( 1943 ).
Collected Poems: 1909-1962 ( 1963 ).

Plays
Murder in the Cathedral ( 1935 ). About the murder of St. Thomas à Becket.
The Family Reunion ( 1939 ).
The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ). You might try a study of this play and Euripides' Alcestis.
The Confidential Clerk ( 1954 ).
The Elder Statesman ( 1959 ).

Literary and Social Criticism
The Sacred Wood ( 1920 ). On Line from Bartleby.
Homage to John Dryden ( 1924 ).
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca ( 1928 ).
For Lancelot Andrewes ( 1928 ).
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ).
After Strange Gods ( 1934 ).
Elizabethan Essays ( 1934 ).
Essays Ancient and Modern ( 1936 ).
The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ).
Notes Toward the Definition of Culture ( 1948 ).
Poetry and Drama ( 1951 ).
The Three Voices of Poetry ( 1954 ).
Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume I, 1898-1922. Edited by Valerie Eliot. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

About Eliot
Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot: A LIfe. Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Helen Gardner, The Art of T. S. Eliot. E. P. Dutton, 1950.
F. O. Matthiessen, The Achievement of T. S. Eliot. Oxford, 1935. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with an Additional Chapter by C. L. Barber, 1985.
A. David Moody, The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot. Cambridge, 1994.
B. C. Southam, A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot. Sixth Edition. Harcourt Brace, 1994.
George Williamson, A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot. Octagon, 1965.
What the Thunder Said from Raymond Camden.
On-Line Criticism of Eliot's Poetry from Modern American Poetry.
Eliot Criticism from Internet Public Library.
The T. S. Eliot Page
T. S. Eliot from Bartleby.
Prufrock and Hamlet from Frank McCormick.

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