Selected Poems - T.S. Eliot

I love the poetry of TS Eliot - when I was little, my mum used to read us McCavity, the mystery cat & then we started looking at poems like the famous 'Alfred J Prufrock', and 'The Wasteland' In my review, I'm going to talk a little about TS Eliot & his poetry. TS Eliot(1888-1965) was a poet, dramatist & literary critic. He recieved the Nobel Prize for litreature in 1948 & many of his poems are still world-renowned, studied in schools and universties & enjoyed by people everywhere. Eliot however, has also been criticsed, by people who claim he 'steals much of his material', and that it's not 'really poetry atall' I know that alot of ...

The poems of Mr Eliot seem to have reappeared frequently in my life. When I was young I found a copy of Old Possums Book of Practical Cats at the bottom of my Christmas stocking (the inspiration for the musical Cats). For A Level English Literature we had to do battle with the epic poem The Wasteland (regarded as an impossible sprawling nightmare by many in my class). He showed up again in a number of modules during my English Lit degree. I don’t think it was a coincidence that my halls of residence were named after him, the guy was clearly stalking me. It’s just as well that I actually like some of his poems. The poems that have remained my ...

T.S Eliot may be quite a lesser known poet to all of you out there whom actually take it upon yourselves to read. Of course if you are like myself you would know that T.S Eliot is infact incredibly well known throughout literature especially for critical pieces on literature. If Mr Eliot happened to be writing on 'dooyoo' you can rest assure that he would dominate the books and magazines section often with criticisms we would frown upon and some we could only agree with. Unfortunately for those of you unfamiliar with T.S Eliot he does not fit the stereotypical poet i.e. he wasn't born centuries ago. Infact T.S Eliot was writing poetry in the early 20th ...