'The most important English-speaking poet and critic of the 20th century.' - Boston Globe
T. S. Eliot, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and widely honored for his poetry, criticism, essays, and plays, has had a profound influence on literature since the appearance of his first and instantly famous work, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' in 1917. From there, the 20th century poetic revolution took hold, and Eliot continued to lead the way. Selected Poems brings together much of Eliot's best-known poetry - some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature - including 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' 'Gerontion,' 'Whispers of Immortality,' 'The Waste Land' and 'The Hollow Men.'
'[Eliot's] poetics are our poetics. It's impossible to write poetry today without hearing in some inner ear the echoes of those wonderfully dry, melancholy, cryptic, melodic and haunting poems - 'The Waste Land,' 'Prufrock,' 'The Hollow Men.'' - The Washington Post
