'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats .

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**T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962 is the best overview of Eliot's poetry available; including Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, the Ariel Poems, Four Quartets and much else besides, Eliot's Collected Poems is indispensable for any reader of English poetry.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.