The Poems Of T. S. Eliot: Volume Ii: Practical Cats And Further Verses

The second edition of the two-volume T. S. Eliot poems The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. To accompany EliotÆs poems, Ricks and 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 poetÆs working processes, his reading, his influences and his revisions. This second volume opens with two books of verse: the childrenÆs verse of Old PossumÆs Book of Practical Cats and his translation of St. John PerseÆs Anabase. This volume then gathers the verses Eliot contributed to the learnedly lighthearted exchanges of Noctes Binanianµ and others for intimate friends or written off the cuff. Each of these sections is accompanied by its own commentary. Finally, there is a comprehensive textual history that contains not only variants from all known drafts and the many printings but also extended passages amounting to hundreds of lines of compelling verse. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read it.

• | Author: T. S. Eliot
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Dec 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 688 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374235147
• | ISBN-13: 9780374235147