The Poems Of T. S. Eliot Volume I Av T. S. Eliot

<p>Times Literary Supplement <i>Book of the Year</i><br>Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, Chicago<br><i>Richard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual Scholarship<br></i><i>Best Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies Association<br></i><i><br>The Poems of T. S. Eliot</i> is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot''s poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted. The edition also presents many poems from Eliot''s youth which were published only decades later, as well as others that saw only private circulation in his lifetime, of which dozens are collected for the first time. <br><br>To accompany Eliot''s poems, Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue have provided a commentary that illuminates the creati