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Poetry by T. S. Eliot: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Waste Land, Four Quartets, the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion
Poetry by T S Eliot Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats the Waste Land Four Quartets the Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Gerontion Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Waste Land, Four Quartets, the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, the Hollow Men, Little Gidding, Burnt Norto... more »n, East Coker, the Dry Salvages, Growltiger's Last Stand, Ash Wednesday, the Journey of the Magi, Gus: the Theatre Cat, T. S. Eliot's Ariel Poems, Portrait of a Lady, Bustopher Jones, Preludes. Excerpt: " Ash Wednesday " (sometimes "Ash-Wednesday") is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism . Published in 1930 (see 1930 in poetry), this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God. Sometimes referred to as Eliot's "conversion poem", Ash-Wednesday , with a base of Dante 's Purgatorio , is richly but ambiguously allusive and deals with the aspiration to move from spiritual barrenness to hope for human salvation . The style is different from his poetry which predates his conversion . Ash-Wednesday and the poems that followed had a more casual, melodic, and contemplative method. Many critics were "particularly enthusiastic concerning Ash-Wednesday ", while in other quarters it was not well received. Among many of the more secular literati its groundwork of orthodox Christianity was discomforting. Edwin Muir maintained that "Ash Wednesday is one of the most moving poems he has written, and perhaps the most perfect." " Publication information The poem was first published as now known in April, 1930 as a small book limited to 600 numbered and signed copies. Later that month an ordinary run of 2000 copies was published in the UK and in September another 2000 published in the US. Eliot is known to collect poems and fragments of poems to produce new works. This is most clearly seen in his poems "The Hollow Men " and "Ash-We...« less