The Poems of T.S.Eliot II

Resumen del libro

The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. To accompany Eliot's poems, Ricks and McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creative activity that came to constitute each poem, calling upon drafts, correspondence and other original materials to provide a vivid account of the poet's working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions.

This second volume opens with two books of verse: the children's verse of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of St. John Perse's Anabase. This volume then gathers the verses Eliot contributed to the learnedly lighthearted exchanges of Noctes Binanian and others for intimate friends or written off the cuff. Each of these sections is accompanied by its own commentary. Finally, there is a comprehensive textual history that contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse.

The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read it.

Biografía del autor

Nacido en St. Louis (Missouri), aunque proveniente de una antigua familia puritana de Nueva Inglaterra, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) se instaló en Londres en 1915 y acabó adoptando la nacionalidad británica. En su labor poética, y con el apoyo de Ezra Pound, fue un pionero del vanguardismo y de las corrientes que dieron su impronta a la poesía moderna. Eje de la vida poética en lengua inglesa desde la publicación en 1922 de su poema "The Waste Land", la cumbre de su obra son los cuatro cuartetos (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages y Little Gidding) que publicó sucesivamente entre 1936 y 1942 y fueron reunidos en un volumen en 1943.<br> T. S. Eliot recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1948.