The Waste Land, Prufrock, The Hollow Men, and Other Poems

This superb collection features twenty-six of Eliot's greatest works, including the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land," which ranks among the most influential poetic works of the twentieth century. An exploration of the psychic stages of a despairing soul caught in a struggle for redemption, the poem contrasts the spiritual stagnation of the modern world with the ennobling myths of the past. This volume also includes the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); "The Hollow Men;" and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more).