{"product_id":"9780571238705","title":"The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I : Collected and Uncollected Poems by Christopher Ricks","description":"Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearPegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, Poetry Foundation, ChicagoRichard J. Finneran Award, Society for Textual ScholarshipBest Scholarly Edition Award, Modernist Studies AssociationThe Poems of T. S. Eliot  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. To  accompany Eliot's poems, Christopher Ricks  and Jim McCue have provided  a commentary that illuminates the creative  activity that came to  constitute each poem, calling upon drafts,  correspondence and other  original materials to provide a vivid account  of the poet's working  processes, his reading, his influences and his  revisions.   The first volume respects Eliot's decisions by opening with his Collected Poems 1909-1962   in the form in which he issued it, shortly before his death fifty  years  ago.  There follow in this first volume the uncollected poems  from his  youth that he had chosen to publish, along with such other  poems as  could be considered suitable for publication.  The second  volume opens  with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued,  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and his translation of Perse's Anabase,   moving then to verses privately circulated as informal or improper or   clubmanlike. Each of these sections is accompanied by its respective   commentary, and then, pertaining to the entire edition, there is a   comprehensive textual history recording variants both manuscript and   published. The Poems of T. S. Eliot is a work of   enlightening scholarship that will delight and inform all those who read   Eliot for pleasure, as well as all those who read with pleasure and  for  study. Here are a new accuracy and an unparalleled insight into the   marvels and landmarks from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four Quartets.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311804035445,"sku":"9780571238705","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571238705.jpg?v=1762819428","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780571238705","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}