T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)


		Spleen

	Sunday: this satisfied procession
	Of definite Sunday faces;
	Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces
	In repetition that displaces
	Your mental self-possession
	By this unwarranted digression.

	Evening, lights, and tea!
	Children and cats in the alley;
	Dejection unable to rally
	Against this dull conspiracy.

	And Life, a little bald and gray,
	Languid, fastidious, and bland,
	Waits, hat and gloves in hand,
	Punctilious of tie and suit
	(Somewhat impatient of delay)
	  On the doorstep of the Absolute.

			January 1910
	[The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot]
	Copyright (c) 1969 Valerie Eliot

Bibliography

Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot: A Life (Sphere Books, 1984)
Bergonzi, Bernard. T. S. Eliot (1972)
Drew, Elizabeth. T. S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry (1948)
Eliot, T. S. The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (Faber, 1969)
---. Selected Essays, 3d ed. (1951; rpt. Faber, 1980)
Eliot, Valerie, ed. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (1971; rpt. Faber, 1980)
---. The Letters of T. S. Eliot, vol. 1 1898-1922 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988)
Freed, Lewis. T. S. Eliot: The Critic as Philosopher (Purdue UP, 1979)
Frye, Northrop. T. S. Eliot (1981)
Gardner, Helen. The Art of T. S. Eliot (1949; repr. Faber, 1979)
---. The Composition of Four Quartets (Faber, 1978)
Gordon, Lyndall. Eliot's Early Years (1977; repr. Oxford UP, 1988)
---. Eliot's New Life (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988)
Grant, Michael, ed. T. S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1982)
Headings, P.R. T.S. Eliot, rev. ed. (1982)
Kearns, Cleo McNelly. T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions: A Study in Poetry and Belief (Cambridge UP, 1987)
Kenner, Hugh. The Invisible Poet (1979)
---. ed. T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays (1963)
Matthiessen, F. O. The Achievement of T. S. Eliot, 3d ed. (1959)
Mayer, J. T.S. Eliot's Silent Voices (1989)
Ricks, Christopher. T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (Faber, 1988)
Skaff, William. The Philosophy of T. S. Eliot: From Skepticism to a Surrealist Poetic 1909-1927 (U of Pennsylvania P, 1986)
Smith, Grover, Jr. T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning, 2d ed. (U of Chicago P, 1974)
---. The Waste Land (George Allen & Unwin, 1983)
Spender, Stephen. Eliot (1975)
Tate, Allen, ed. T. S. Eliot, rev. ed. (1967)
Williamson, George. A Reader's Guide to T. S. Eliot, 2d ed. (1966; repr. 1974)

I've compiled the above information referring to some standard reference materials, including The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, Grolier Encyclopedia, etc.

Concordance

TSEbase: The Online Concordance to T. S. Eliot's Poems (missouri)
Concordance-like word searches within the complete text of Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962. Maintained by Greg Foster, co-owner of T. S. Eliot Discussion Forum.

Eliot Pages

T.S. Eliot (Poets' Corner)
E-text of 3 poems and The Waste Land.
Exploring "The Waste Land"
The Waste Land with hyperlinked notes, definitions, translations, cross references, texts of works alluded to, commentary, and questions to the reader. Maintained by Rickard A. Parker. A huge site of over 600 pages.
"The Possibility of a Poetic Drama" (virginia)
Modern English Collection e-text, as appeared in The Dial, November 1920, pp. 441-447.

Prufrock Pages

The T. S. Eliot Page (uga)
E-text of, and links to related works (by other authors) on, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Links.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
E-text of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (amherst)
A hypertext version.

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