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Selected Poems

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "The Waste Land," "The Hollow Men," and "Ash Wednesday"-as well as many other fine selections from Eliot's early work.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
20th centurycollegeUSAbritish
Audience
adult
Length
short · 128 pages
Form
poetry

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