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 Fantastic Works, But Be Warned... September 30, 2009
Morgann (Hebron, Indiana)
T.S. is not for the novice reader. If you're going to delve into this book, take a good drink with you. As I read TS's poetry, I am reminded of the style of William Faulkner, in terms of diffculty in understanding and comprehension - except in poetry. You'll read his poems over two and three, maybe ten times before any sense is made. However, once you grasp the concept, you'll never forget it. I think TS's poetry are his best works. His lectures are fantastic also. If this is your first TS work, kudos for having guts to take on TS's intriguing poetic library!! Love Story of J Alfred Prufrock is definitely my favorite of TS's poetic masterpieces :)
 Some of the World's Finest Poetry (In my incredibly uneducated opinion) June 29, 2008
Jamie Elliott (Madison, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For some reason most poetry does not really resonate with me. One of the only poets I can stand is T.S. Eliot. His poetry is absurd and lyrical, providing just the barest glimpses at the underlying meaning. But the images stay with me.
The strange and haunting visions of T.S Eliot May 16, 2006
Menachem Rephun (Passaic, N.J)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It took me sometime before I could genuinely come to understand and appreciate his poetry: yet, nevertheless, the writings of American-born, anglocized author T.S Eliot have always held a peculiar fascination for me, and, it seems, for a number of other writers and laypeople as well. From the personal yet somehow universal, melancholy and self-doubting music of "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to the wild, multi-cultural, history spanning visions of urban chaos in "The Wasteland", Eliot's oeuvre is rich in religious, political, and philosophical themes, and played an enormous role in shaping the development of poetry in the twentieth-century (not to mention, on an obviously less signficant level, my own writing). Reading Eliot's serious poetry, however, requires a great deal of analytical prowess and is often a rather depressing experience (particularly in the beautiful "Prufrock"): nevertheless, those with patience will find that it is richly rewarding and can be appreciated on a superificial level simply for the entrancing rhythm of the music and haunting nature of the imagery, which, though informed by a number of sources, including Shakespeare, Dante, and Baudelaire, are written in a voice which is always distinctive and wholly original.
A very good collection of Eliot's poems November 28, 2004
butterflyeffect67 (Ibiza, Spain)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you can only get one book of poems, get this one. It has the most important poems before "Four Quartets". If you want more,get also "Four Quartets" and "Murder in the Cathedral" or, even better, get the collected poems.
Inspiring April 5, 2004
Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr. (Edinboro, Pennsylvania)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I admit I don't know a lot about poetry. For that reason I acknowledge that my review of Eliot's work is written with deference to other reviewers, i.e., I rely on their comments after having read Eliot's work. So this review is somewhat synergistic in that I've taken their comments into account as I offer my own observations. One of my favorites in this work is from "Choruses From 'The Rock'": "The Lord who created must wich us to create and employ our creation again in His service.
Which is already His service in creating.
For man is joined spirit and body.
Visible and invisible, two worlds meet in man;
Visible and invisible must meet in His temple;
You must not deny the body.
...For the work of creation is never without travail;"
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