Information on the author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Blurb: An ideal introduction to the work of one of the defining figures of the 20th century, containing "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, featuring an introductory essay by Seamus Heaney.

Summary: T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic, and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favorite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers.