The Early Poems of T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot
This volume collects readings of the poems of T. S. Eliot published by the early 1920’s and includes well-known selections from his Prufrock and Other Observations (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) in entirety. Most of the poems in Prufrock and Other Observations had been published in literary magazines. Among these are such well-known favorites as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Portrait of a Lady” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”, many of which are in a “stream of consciousness style” characteristic of modernism.
The Waste Land, first published in The Criterion, is Eliot’s best known work and marked a significant turning point for poetry, both in substance and in style. Ezra Pound had an influential role in shaping and editing the work from a longer manuscript. It is noted for its many obscure references and quotations, for its structural complexity, with frequent shifts in narrator, time and location, and a mixture of prophecy and satire.
These are the poems that established Eliot’s position as a major and influential modern poet. In Eliot’s own words, "My reputation in London is built upon one small volume of verse, and is kept up by printing two or three more poems in a year. The only thing that matters is that these should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event." Perfect, indeed.
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Product Details
| Read by: | Prufrock and Other Observations read by D. S. Harvey |
| The Waste Land read by Elizabeth Klett | |
| Length: | 2 hours and 31 minutes |
| Type: | Solo reading |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1143 |
| List Price: | $2.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
Credits
Production
Prufrock and Other Observations
Read by: D. S. Harvey
Book Producer: D. S. Harvey
The Waste Land
Read by: Elizabeth Klett
Book Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Meta Coordinator: Elizabeth Klett
Artwork
Inset: "Sunday Afternoon" by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938). Photograph of T.S. Eliot;
Insert: Combles, Nachschubkolonne, March 1918, from the German Federal Archives Bild 104-0998
The Recordings
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Table of Contents
| Track | Title | Length |
| 01 | 01 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | 8:23 |
| 02 | 02 - Portrait of a Lady | 7:28 |
| 03 | 03 - Preludes | 2:36 |
| 04 | 04 - Rhapsody | 3:40 |
| 05 | 05 - Morning at the Window | 0:40 |
| 06 | 06 - The Boston Evening Transcript | 0:51 |
| 07 | 07- Aunt Helen | 1:02 |
| 08 | 08 - Cousin Nancy | 0:51 |
| 09 | 09 - Mr. Appolinax | 1:40 |
| 10 | 10 - Hysteria | 1:10 |
| 11 | 11 - Conversation Galante | 1:14 |
| 12 | 12 - La Figlia che Piange | 1:39 |
| 13 | Introduction to The Waste Land | 0:18 |
| 14 | I. The Burial of the Dead | 5:07 |
| 15 | II. A Game of Chess | 6:05 |
| 16 | III. The Fire Sermon | 8:02 |
| 17 | IV. Death by Fire | 1:04 |
| 18 | V. What the Thunder Said | 6:48 |
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