T. S. Eliot

1888-1965 / Male / English

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Essential Poems

A first path through T. S. Eliot, balancing reader signal, quality labels, registers, and obvious canonical titles.

City, Waste, and Modern Desolation

Urban fragments, hollow rooms, waste places, nerves, smoke, and modern spiritual exhaustion.

Prufrock and Early Voices

Prufrock, portraits, preludes, and Eliot's early modern masks of hesitation and city life.

Cats, Comedy, and Masks

Cats, comic character pieces, sly masks, and Eliot's lighter formal invention.

The Hollow MenMistah Kurtz—he dead. / A penny for the Old Guy / I / We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men

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The Waste Land‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis / vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri diceren

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The Love Song Of J. Alfred PrufrockLet us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etheriz

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Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages(The Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages / — is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off th

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The Song Of The JelliclesJellicle Cats come out tonight, / Jellicle Cats come one come all: / The Jellicle Moon is shining br

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A Cooking EggEn l’an trentiesme do mon aage / Que toutes mes hontes j’ay beues… / Pipit sate upright in her chair

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Skimbleshanks: The Railway CatThere’s a whisper down the line at 11.39 / When the Night Mail’s ready to depart, / Saying “Skimble

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Ash WednesdayI / Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn / De

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Rhapsody On A Windy NightTwelve o’clock. / Along the reaches of the street / Held in a lunar synthesis, / Whispering lunar in

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The Rum Tum TuggerThe Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: / If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. / If y

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