Track Section Length
1 1-01 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 8:23
2 1-02 Portrait of a Lady 7:32
3 1-03 Preludes 2:35
4 1-04 Rhapsody 3:40
5 1-05 Morning at the Window 0:39
6 1-06 The Boston Evening Transcript 0:50
7 1-07 Aunt Helen 1:00
8 1-08 Cousin Nancy 0:50
9 1-09 Mr. Appolinax 1:36
10 1-10 Hysteria 1:10
11 1-11 Conversation Galante 1:12
12 1-12 La Figlia che Piange 1:36
13 2-01 Introduction to The Waste Land 0:18
14 2-02 I. The Burial of the Dead 5:08
15 2-03 II. A Game of Chess 6:07
16 2-04 III. The Fire Sermon 8:03
17 2-05 IV. Death by Fire 1:04
18 2-06 V. What the Thunder Said 6:49

Notes
Running Time:59 minutes
Read by: D. S.Harvey (Prufrock), Elizabeth Klett (The Waste Land)

Artwork
Inset: : "Sunday Afternoon" by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938). Photograph of T.S. Eliot;
Insert: Combles, Nachschubkolonne, March 1918, from the German Federal Archives Bild 104-0998

Recordings
These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members and volunteers of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. The audio files have been lightly edited and have been engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics.  



This volume collects readings of the poems of T. S. Eliot published by the early 1920’s and includes well-known selections from his Prufrock and Other Observations (1915) and The Waste Land (1922) in entirety. Most of the poems in Prufrock and Other Observations had been published in literary magazines. Among these are such well-known favorites as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, “Portrait of a Lady” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”, many of which are in a “stream of consciousness style” characteristic of modernism.

The Waste Land, first published in The Criterion, is Eliot’s best known work and marked a significant turning point for poetry, both in substance and in style.  Ezra Pound had an influential role in shaping and editing the work from a longer manuscript. It is noted for its many obscure references and quotations, for its structural complexity, with frequent shifts in narrator, time and location, and a mixture of prophecy and satire. 

These are the poems that established Eliot’s position as a major and influential modern poet. In Eliot’s own words, "My reputation in London is built upon one small volume of verse, and is kept up by printing two or three more poems in a year. The only thing that matters is that these should be perfect in their kind, so that each should be an event."  Perfect, indeed.


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EAN - DVD case 0683422134425
EAN - CD jacket 0687700170013
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Box
Author Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Recording
Read by D. S. Harvey (Prufrock and Other Observations) Elizabeth Klett (The Waste Land)
Length 2 hours and 31 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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