Statistics for T. S. Eliot (Major Poetic Works)

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Year	Hint	Quotation	Poetic Work	% Correct
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	97%
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	87%
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	67%
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	65%
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	55%
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	49%

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