Fourteen poems from the years just before The Waste Land: the old man of Gerontion waiting for rain, Prufrock measuring out his life among the yellow fog and teacups, the brutish Sweeney among the nightingales, and four pieces written in French. Several poems, Gerontion and Burbank among them, contain antisemitic images that readers today will find ugly and that critics still argue over.
The early Eliot in one slim book, essential for anyone tracing how modernist poetry began. Download the free EPUB.