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.

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.