A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth centurys major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri

T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose workincluding The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature.

The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliots most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.