Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965

Old Possum's book of practical cats by T. S Eliot ( Book )
242 editions published between 1913 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 6,589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems

Murder in the cathedral by T. S Eliot ( Book )
394 editions published between 1935 and 2009 in 12 languages and held by 6,144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A dramatization in verse of the murder of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury

Complete poems and plays by T. S Eliot ( Book )
40 editions published between 1900 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,654 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This omnibus collection includes all of the author' s early poetry as well as the Four Quartets, Old Possum' s Book of Practical Cats, and the plays Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party

Collected poems, 1909-1962 by T. S Eliot ( Book )
89 editions published between 1086 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,060 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A selection of the poet's complete text of "collected poems 1909-1935," the full text of "Four Quartets," and several other poems

The cocktail party, a comedy by T. S Eliot ( Book )
179 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 3,788 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This drawing-room comedy is a modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry" (Stephen Spender)

Four quartets by T. S Eliot ( Book )
192 editions published between 1943 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 3,748 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism

Selected essays by T. S Eliot ( Book )
153 editions published between 1932 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 3,519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Includes criticism by T. S. Eliot of Euripides, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Heywood, Cyril Tourneur, John Ford, Philip Massinger, Dante, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, William Blake, Algernon Swinburne, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lancelot Andrewes, John Bramhall, Blaise Pascal and the Pensees, Charles Baudelaire, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Francis Herbert Bradley, Marie Lloyd, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Irving Babbitt, and Charles Whibley

The waste land and other poems by T. S Eliot ( Book )
92 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,375 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-five works, representing the essential T. S. Eliot, include the title poem plus the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," others) and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," more)

The sacred wood : essays on poetry and criticism by T. S Eliot ( Book )
148 editions published between 1920 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 2,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is Eliot's first collection of literary criticism and it contains some of his most influential early essays and reviews

On poetry and poets; [essays] by T. S Eliot ( Book )
105 editions published between 1943 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 2,854 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This book contains seven essays 'on poetry' and nine essays 'on poets'"--Back cover