T S Eliot – författare

T S Eliots inflytelserika diktverk Det öde landet utkom 1922 – samma år som James Joyces viktiga modernistiska roman Odysseus publicerades. Europa var krigshärjat och utvecklingsoptimismen stukad. Det öde landet var det granat- uppfläkta slagfältet men också det förstörda inre landskapet, den allmänna själsliga uppgivenheten. Eliots dikt har blivit ett av den litterära modernismens viktigaste verk, genom sitt omskakande innehåll och sin experimentella form. Tvåspråkig utgåva med den engelska texten på vänstersidorna och den svenska texten på högersidorna. I översättning och med kommentarer av Jonas Ellerström.

'The cat himself knows and will never confess...'To celebrate Old Possum's 75th anniversary we have commissioned lively new illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown for T. S. Eliot's original book of Practical Cats. Featuring Macavity, the Mystery Cat; Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer and all the gang, this is a must for every child's bookshelf and is a great companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage show.

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . .Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”T. S. Eliot’s advocacy of “impersonality” as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today. An incisive (and controversial) account of individual artists’ relation to their forebears, this essay remains an outstanding work of critical prose.

Modernismens stora poet i ny utgåva T. S. Eliot förtjänar redan med sina tidiga diktsamlingar en plats bland 1900-talets stora poeter. Debutdikten »J. Alfred Prufrocks kärlekssång« publicerades 1915 i den prestigefyllda tidskriften Poetry, på initiativ av Ezra Pound. Dikten fick ett blandat mottagande. Av några betraktades den som obegriplig och spefull; andra hyllade Eliot för hans banbrytande metod och oefterhärmliga genialitet. I dag betraktas »J. Alfred Prufrocks kärlekssång« som ett av de mest avgörande tidiga modernistiska verken, och som en tydlig brytning med den viktorianska poesin. Eliots poesi är både konkret och djuplodande, exakt och mångbottnad. I ett försök att göra den omtumlandemellan- och efterkrigstiden rättvisa sökte Eliot dikta på ett sätt som satte samman traditionen och förnyelsen, som blandade medeltida legender och framstörtande bilar. Med stor fingertoppskänsla skapade Eliot i sin diktning en form för det moderna livets oförsonade helhet och sammanhang. Omsorgsfullt och precist ringade han in förutsättningarna för människan, då och nu. Dikter 1915-1945 samlar en stor andel av T. S. Eliots viktigaste poesi. Här finns »Fyra kvartetter«, »De ihåliga männen« och Eliots fem landskapsdikter i nya översättningar av Erik Lindman Mata (de sistnämnda dikterna för första gången på svenska), tillsammans med klassiska svenska översättningar av Karin Boye och Erik Mesterton, Johannes Edfelt, Gunnar Ekelöf och Erik Lindegren. Boken har ett introducerande förord av Erik Lindman Mata. THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT [1888-1965] född i St. Louis, Missouri, tillhör de största engelskspråkiga poeterna och var en av modernismens centrala figurer. Hans långdikt Det öde landet betraktas som ett av 1900-talets viktigaste verk. Eliot flyttade som tjugofemåring till England och blev engelsk medborgare 1927, samtidigt som han avsade sig sitt amerikanska medborgarskap. Han umgicks i samma litterära kretsar som Ezra Pound och William Butler Yeats, och bidrog till utgivningen av James Joyce Ulysses.

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

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 Catsand 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.

'That crown which he set on his lifetime's effort.' Ted HughesFour Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. This edition is based on the design made by Giovanni Mardersteig for his letterpress edition of 1960 and marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of its first publication in the UK by Faber & Faber in 1944.'Throughout these poems there is also the invention of new rhythms, of unimagined possibilities in the movement of language . . . He is perhaps more original and inventive in rhythm than any other poet in English.' Delmore Schwartz'The most original contribution to poetry that has been made in our time.' Edwin Muir

Included in Prufrock and Other Observations are the following poems:The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPortrait of a LadyPreludesRhapsody on a Windy NightMorning at the WindowThe Boston Evening TranscriptAunt HelenCousin NancyMr. ApollinaxHysteriaConversation GalanteLa Figlia Che Piange

This superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock and Other Observations ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes, " "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); "The Hollow Men"; and the collection Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more).

The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot’s poetry.It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.The Waste Land caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Westerncity had become a sterile desert waste land, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality.The Four Quartets express the poet’s whole-hearted acceptance of the Christian faith. Each poem describes a meditation which leads to a reconciliation with the burden of the past.

The basis for the musical phenomenon ''Cats'', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes – the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic – make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.The basis for the musical phenomenon ''Cats'', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes – the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic – make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.

The last major verse written by the Nobel laureate, including "Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding."