Books with author T. S. Eliot

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First U.S. Edition. Octavo, 86 pp. . Black cloth, gilt spine imprinting, jacket. Fine, sparkling book in a very good jacket showing edgewear and some age darkening, notably at spine. Gallup A29f. Eliot's play, the story of Thomas a Becket, in which a man of God stands as a spiritual beacon against the darkness of a despotic temporal power, was actually banned in Romania under the Ceausescu régime. Generally well regarded - for a play by a poet - it reflects Eliot's philosophical bent while respectfully dallying with dramatic forms of much earlier eras, and in so doing makes the choice of an overused historical vehicle more palatable. Handsome copy. L6

Excerpt from Prufrock: And Other ObservationsAnd time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

T. S. Eliot was a publisher, playwright and is one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. Born in the United States in 1888 in Missouri he immigrated to the United Kingdom where he published the majority of his work. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and The Hollow Men are some of his most famous works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his contributions to poetry.