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T. S. Eliot (Major Poetic Works)

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry". Name these works he composed.
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Year
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Quotation
Poetic Work
1917
A man laments his physical and intellectual inertia, lost opportunities, lack of spiritual progress, and unattained carnal love
"Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table"
Prufrock and Other Observations
1922
Known for its slippage between satire and prophecy, and abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time
"April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land"
The Waste Land
1925
Told from three perspectives, each a phase of the passing of a soul into one of death's kingdoms
"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper"
The Hollow Men
1930
His first long poem written after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism
"Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope"
Ash-Wednesday
1939
Book of light verse and the basis for the musical Cats
"You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter / When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES"
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
1943
Regarded by Eliot as his masterpiece, it consists of four long poems, each first published separately
"Footfalls echo in the memory / Down the passage which we did not take / Towards the door we never opened / Into the rose-garden"
Four Quartets
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