The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Practical Cats and Further Verses

by T.S. Eliot, Christopher Ricks (Editor), Jim McCue (Editor)

The Poems of T. S. Eliot 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.To 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.The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962 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, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase, 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.The Poems of T. S. Eliot 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 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets

Genres: Poetry

688 pages, Hardcover

Published December 15, 2015

About the author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S._Eliot

Reviews

[Oleksandr Fediienko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Це здійснилося. Мій перший переклад для видавництва. Та ще й який! Мені випала нагода перекладати Т. С. Еліота – лаурета Нобелівської премії з літератури 1948 року, яку він отримав «[з]а його видатний внесок в сучасну поезію».
Більше, мабуть, розкажу, коли книгу надрукує «НК - Богдан», а поки опишу в загальних рисах. Всі серйозні вірші увійшли, схоже, в перший том. У другому ж – не можу сказати, що несерйозні, а радше різношерсті. Тут:
– «Практичне котознавство, писане Старим Опосумом», збірка з кільканадцяти кумедних віршів про котів з різними характерами;
– «Анабазис», переклад поеми Сен-Жона Перса, іншого нобелівського лауреата (1960);
– підліткові вірші, принагідні вірші і римовані листи, але до цього вони не потрапляли до друку;
– «Noctes Binanianae», збірка жартівливих віршів чотирьох друзів, зокрема Еліота, які отримали тваринячі прізвиська і кепкували одне над одним;
– непристойні вірші, а головне «Колумбіада», де в нецензурному, порнографічному та іронічному стилі Еліот подає вигаданий життєпис Христофора Колумба.
Ці твори дуже різні, і об’єднує їх хіба що те, що, за виключенням «Котознавства» і «Анабазису», Еліот їх ніколи не друкував, а ділився ними тільки у вузькому колі друзів. Деякі з них абсурдні, а деякі у своїй абсурдності епічні.

[Audrey Zhu · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun and interesting read! T.S. Eliot's poems are always captivating and entertaining! The commentary and analyzation is also very helpful in understanding his craft, and what he means in his poems.

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 —lowkey mid :( i expected more from eliot but this wasn’t bad by any means. i really liked the anabasis section

[Les Abernathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hope you like cats.

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

See my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...