A Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 267 pages
A unique guide designed to help the readers of Eliot's personally chosen collection, Selected Poems. Specific information about the poems and their development is included, as is a chronology of the poet's life and work.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Note on Dating
42
Portrait of a Lady
50
Preludes
59
POEMS 1920
68
Bleistein with a Cigar
79
Sweeney Erect
93
The Hippopotamus
106
A Game of Chess
156
79
158
Death by Water
181
106
195
THE HOLLOW MEN
201
ASHWEDNESDAY
219
125
230
ARIEL POEMS
235

Mr Eliots Sunday Morning Service
114
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
121
The Burial of the Dead
138
43
147
138
243
CHORUSES FROM THE ROCK
249
Select Bibliography
265
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About the author (1996)

B. C. Southam has written widely on T. S. Eliot, jane Austen, and Lord Tennyson. Formerly an instructor at Oxford and London Universities, he is publisher of the Athlone Press in London.