The Complete Poems and Plays, T.S. Eliot 1950
Some of the 20th C’s most famous poems (Prufrock, 1917, The Wasteland, 1922, Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Little Giddings) and plays (Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party) by this St. Louis-born, Milton and Harvard educated, and English-loving man. cocktail Party won the Tony in 1950, Alec Guiness playing the mysterious stranger. Quotes: Little Giddings: We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our explorings/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time. What we call the beginning if often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning. The Wasteland: April is the cruelest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring pain. Prufrock: “Let us go then, you and I,/When the evening is spread out against the day/Like a patient ethered upon the table. .. In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo. …I grow old…I grow old…. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.