{"product_id":"t-s-eliot-the-poems-volume-1","title":"T S Eliot The Poems Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003ci\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual Scholarship\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poems of T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e  is the authoritative edition of one of  our greatest poets, scrupulously  edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim  McCue. It provides, for the first  time, a fully scrutinized text of  Eliot''s poems, carefully restoring  accidental omissions and removing  textual errors that have crept in over  the full century in which Eliot  has been so frequently printed and  reprinted.  The edition also  presents many poems from Eliot''s youth  which were published only  decades later, as well as others that saw only  private circulation in  his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for  the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo  accompany Eliot''s poems, Christopher Ricks  and Jim 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.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume respects Eliot''s decisions by opening with his \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems 1909-1962\u003c\/i\u003e   in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty  years  ago.  There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems  from his  youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other  poems as  could be considered suitable for publication.  The second  volume opens  with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued,  \u003ci\u003eOld Possum''s Book of Practical Cats\u003c\/i\u003e and his translation of Perse''s \u003ci\u003eAnabase\u003c\/i\u003e,   moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or   clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective   commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a   comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and   published. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poems of T. S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of   enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read   Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and  for  study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the   marvels and landmarks from \u003ci\u003eThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e through to \u003ci\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318815957374,"sku":"NW9780571238705","price":26.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571238705.jpg?v=1778695766","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/t-s-eliot-the-poems-volume-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}