Whether as the poet of the groundbreaking long poem "The Waste Land" or as the author of the no less famous "Cat Poems," T.S. Eliot's lyricism has remained an irritably or invigoratingly inexhaustible force far beyond his own time. Contemporary poets, not only in English, live and work with Eliot's verses, as is only the case with a great work across generational and linguistic boundaries. The bilingual poems presented in this edition have been translated by Christian Enzensberger, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Erich Fried, Hans-Jürgen Heise, Hans Hennecke, Eva Hesse, Klaus Günther Just, Erich Kästner, Werner Peterich, Friedrich Podszus, Alexander Schmitz, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Annemarie Seidel, Hedda Söllner, Peter Suhrkamp, Siegfried Unseld, Nora Wydenbruck, and Carl Zuckmayer. This is in celebration of the 100th birthday of.