The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898-1922 (174 page)

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Valerie Eliot has edited
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts
(1971) and
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898–1922
(1988; revised 2009) and
Volume II: 1923–1925
(2009).

Hugh Haughton is Professor of English at the University of York, author of
The Poetry of Derek Mahon
(2007) and editor of
Poetry of the Second World War
(2004). He is the co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of
The Letters of T. S. Eliot
(2009).

John Haffenden is Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. He has edited several collections of the works of William Empson, including
The Complete Poems
(2000).

THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS

verse
COLLECTED POEMS
1909–1962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND:
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:
POEMS
1909–1917
edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS

plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN

literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
edited by Frank Kermode

social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
edited by David Edwards
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE

letters
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 1: 1898–1922
Revised Edition
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT
Volume 2: 1923–1925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton