"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
Immerse yourself in the visionary soundscapes of T. S. Eliot's 'Poems.' Eliot, a master of modernist poetry, weaves intricate tapestries of language that challenge, provoke, and resonate with the deepest human emotions. Prepare to be transported by his evocative imagery and groundbreaking verse forms. This collection showcases the breadth of Eliot's genius, from the hauntingly beautiful 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' to the culturally impactful 'The Waste Land.' Are you ready to embark on a poetic journey that will stay with you long after the final verse?"
"The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922.
Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures.
The poem's structure is divided into five sections. The first section, 'The Burial of the Dead,' introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second, 'A Game of Chess,' employs alternating narrations, in which vignettes of several characters address those themes experientially. 'The Fire Sermon,' the third section, offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition influenced by Augustine of Hippo and eastern religions. After a fourth section, 'Death by Water,' which includes a brief lyrical petition, the culminating fifth section, 'What the Thunder Said,' concludes with an image of judgment."
"'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', commonly known as 'Prufrock', is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing 'Prufrock' in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry.
Eliot narrates the experience of Prufrock using the stream of consciousness technique developed by his fellow Modernist writers. The poem, described as a 'drama of literary anguish', is a dramatic interior monologue of an urban man, stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action that is said 'to epitomize frustration and impotence of the modern individual' and 'represent thwarted desires and modern disillusionment'.
Prufrock laments his physical and intellectual inertia, the lost opportunities in his life and lack of spiritual progress, and he is haunted by reminders of unattained carnal love. With visceral feelings of weariness, regret, embarrassment, longing, emasculation, sexual frustration, a sense of decay, and an awareness of mortality, 'Prufrock' has become one of the most recognised voices in modern literature."
"Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship. Considered one of the twentieth century's major poets, Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' (1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), 'The Hollow Men' (1925), 'Ash Wednesday' (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, 'for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry'.
This collection includes the works of T. S. Eliot:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land"
"Hear actual recordings of T.S. Eliot narrating his 1922 masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land.” Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was a US-born British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major literary figures, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry. Through his trials in language, writing style, and verse structure, he reinvigorated English poetry and, in 1948, was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature."
"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.
In the desolate wasteland, where fragmented memories whisper of a glorious past, hope dwindles under a barren sky. Journey with T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land and Other Poems' through a world sculpted by disillusionment, where shards of civilization lie scattered amidst the ruins of meaning. Can beauty be found in the ashes of loss? Explore the depths of human experience, confront the hollowness of the modern condition, and embark on a search for solace in a world teetering on the edge of oblivion."
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is an analysis of a beleaguered, multi-layered, and conflicted suitor, trying to reconcile his dichotomy of having a foray of overwhelming ideas juxtaposed with underwhelming execution, in the arena of life and love. It was the poetic debut of the American-born, British poet, T.S Eliot. The poem was originally published in 1915. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is rightly regarded as a poetic classic with timeless themes and undying brilliance."
"Prufrock and Other Observations is the title of a pamphlet of twelve poems by T. S. Eliot published in 1917 by The Egoist, a small publishing firm run by Dora Marsden, an English suffragette and philosopher of language. Most of the poems had been published earlier in literary magazines, most notably the “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, which was Eliot’s first published poem and appeared in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Modern Verse at the urging of Ezra Pound, overseas editor for the magazine. Prufrock is a dramatic interior monologue of a modern urban man trapped in an inertia of isolation and indecision that has been described as a “drama of literary anguish”. The poem was influenced by The Divine Comedy and is peppered with references to the Bible, Shakespeare plays, and the works of metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell and the French symbolist poets. It was considered outlandish when it first appeared. One anonymous London reviewer commented that 'The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to poetry.' As it happens, Prufrock and the companion poems in this volume helped effect a paradigm shift away from Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to what came to be called Modernism and introduced one of the most distinctive voices and recognized voices in modern literature."
"“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
The Waste Land is a seminal work of modernist poetry by T.S. Eliot. Written in 1922, this five-part poem is a portrait of its time, a work that expresses the disillusionment of the modernist era and the desperation that the generation of writers of that time was feeling.
This poem comes from the area just after the first world war, an era in which the world was in disarray. Many young men had lost their lives or livelihoods from the war, families were torn apart, and the survivors were aimless and disoriented at how to move on. This was the era of literary greats like Ezra Pound, F. Scott. Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and, of course, T. S. Eliot. The artists of this time turned to poetry and literature as a way of expressing the widespread spirt of wandering their generation had come to embody.
The Waste Land’s alternating narrators, character vignettes, references to eastern religions, and imagery of chaos and disillusionment all come together to create an impactful and insightful work of art. This poem exemplifies a generation of artists, and is a masterful work from a great artist at his peak."
"T.S. Eliot was born on 26th September, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, editor and publisher. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry. He breathed his last in 1965 with Life magazine concluding with the phrase – 'Our age beyond any doubt has been, and will continue to be, the Age of Eliot.'"
"'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', commonly known as 'Prufrock', is the first professionally published poem by American-born, British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing 'Prufrock' in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917. At the time of its publication, Prufrock was considered outlandish,[3] but is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th-century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism."
