E is for Eliot (my favorite poets from A to Z - volume 5)
Some of you may recall that in April 2008 I began a blog series dedicated to my Favorite Poets from A to Z. It's taken a while, but I'm finally getting around to the letter E and and the incomparable T.S. Eliot. In the course of the past year I've added over two dozen Eliot works to the Crisis Chronicles Online Library, including his first two collections — Prufrock and Other Observations and Poems — in their entirety, as well as what some consider his most important poem, The Waste Land.
Rather than try to put into words why I've chosen T.S. Eliot, I prefer to let his writing speak for itself. For your convenience, here's a listing of every Eliot poem in the Online Library. Click the title of your choosing to go to that work:
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr. Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Piange
Poems (1920)
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
Le Directeur
Mélange Adultère de Tout
Lune de Miel
The Hippopotamus
Dans le Restaurant
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land (1922)
The Waste Land
from Four Quartets (1943)
East Coker
Online biographies of T.S. Eliot include http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot,
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18 and
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 6/29/2009 11:58 AM 
Categories: Favorite Poets from A to Z
Tags: A to Z T.S. Eliot Poetry
Categories: Favorite Poets from A to Z
Tags: A to Z T.S. Eliot Poetry
your "poems" selections matches the second half of a hardback i have of eliot's copyrighted 1930/34/36 titled Collected Poems.
i bought it in baltimore in a used bookshop in 1973 for $3.50.
its sections are
prufrock 1917
poems 1920
the waste land 1922
the hollow men 1925
ash wednesday 1930
ariel poems
unfinished poems
minor poems
220 pages
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At present, everything by Eliot that was originally published before 1923 (Prufrock, Poems, and The Waste Land) is no longer under copyright in the U.S. Everything first published in 1923 and after is still protected. I'm uncertain of the "minor" poems' copyright status because although they were first collected after 1923, I believe they may have been individually published (in periodicals) before that - so I need to do some research.
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