TY - BOOK AU - Eliot,T.S. AU - Washington,Peter TI - Eliot: poems and prose T2 - Everyman's library pocket poets SN - 0375401857 : PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - A.A. Knopf N1 - Includes index; 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 --; Gerontion --; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar --; Sweeney Erect --; A Cooking Egg --; Le Directeur --; Melange Adultere 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 I. The Burial of the Dead --; The Waste Land II. A Game of Chess --; The Waste Land III. The Fire Sermon --; The Waste Land IV. Death by Water --; The Waste Land V. What the Thunder Said --; Notes on The Waste Land --; Essays; Reflections on Vers Libre; Tradition and the Individual Talent; Hamlet; The Perfect Critic; The Metaphysical Poets; The Function of Criticism; Andrew Marvell; Ulysses, Order and Myth N2 - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was the dominant force in twentieth-century British and American poetry. With poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," he introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the English-speaking world. With his masterpiece "The Waste Land," he almost single-handedly ushered an entire poetic culture into the modern world; And with his enormously influential essays he set the canonical standards to which writers and critics of poetry have adhered throughout our era ER -