This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste Land , which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. * The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. * Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus , and Sweeny Among the Nightingales . * T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. * Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic . * Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete .

在线阅读本书 In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer’s work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Taken as a whole, the Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and other readers of Eliot.

A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. “An authentic modern masterpiece” (New York Post). “Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry” (Stephen Spender).

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot s notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land s sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poem s reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormahlen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

《艾略特文学论文集》主要内容简介：二十世纪是战争、革命此起彼伏的时代、也是科技，经济突飞猛进的时代。时代的激变给予人们思想意识以巨大震荡，思想意识的震荡又促进了文学艺术和文学理论的千变万化。任何一个世纪没有涌现过如此变化多端的文学流派，任何一个世纪也没有出现过如此层出不穷的文学理论。

Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" ( The New Yorker ), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" ( Boston Globe ). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in full the issue of Eliot's anti-Semitism as well as the less-noted issue of his misogyny. Her account "rescues both the poet and the man from the simplifying abstractions that have always been applied to him" ( The New York Times ), and is "definitive but not dogmatic, sympathetic without taking sides. . . . Its voice rings with authority" ( Baltimore Sun ). Praised by Cynthia Ozick as "daring, strong, psychologically brilliant," Gordon's study remains true to the mysteries of art as she chronicles the poet's "insistent search for salvation."

《批评批评家：艾略特文集·论文》收录了艾略特从1917年开始到1961年间的9篇评论文章和演讲稿。这位在文学界享有极高声誉的评论家有着独到的眼光，对众多文化现象进行了评论，如对文学批评的运用的论述，另外他还评价了对他产生巨大影响力的若干作家，并强调了接受真正的教育的重 要性。

书名原文:《The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock》、《The waste land》、《Four quartets》:诗集,收有《J.阿尔弗雷德·普洛弗洛克德情歌》、《荒原》、《四首四重奏》3组诗作。

本书收5部戏剧。从轻松愉快的《老负鼠的猫经》(音乐剧《猫》的原作)到气势磅礴的《大教堂凶杀案》，本书全面收录了T·S·艾略特的戏剧作品。他的现实主义手法和故事情节以及作品中对深层次象征意义的追求，对同时代的剧作家产生了巨大的影响。

本书共收录了艾略特在1919年至1936年期间18篇评论文章和演讲稿。凭借其深厚的文学蕴涵和冷静敏锐的洞察力，这名出色的批评家对英国文学史上具有时代重要性的代表诗人进行了承前启后的审视，同时也表达了自己对文学批评的意义和手法的独到见解。