Male : Poet and critic. Married Vivien Haigh-Wood in 1914 (died 1947) & Esme Valerie Fletcher 1957. She was then 30 years old. British subject 1927. Nobel Prize 1948

Nationality : English Place of Birth : St Louis, Missouri

Date of Birth : 1888 Date of Death : 1965 Age : 77

Other Work : Master at Highgate School and worked for Lloyds Bank. Editor & Director of Faber's 1926-65

Education : Smith Academy, St Louis & Harvard. Sorbonne & Merton College, Oxford

All Faber unless stated
1917-1920
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917 The Egoist)
Ezra Pound : His Metric & Poetry (1917 Knopf) - publ anonymously
Poems (1919 Hogarth Press)
Ara Vos Prec (sic) (1920 Ovid Press) - 30 signed.Decorated E A Wadsworth
Poems (1920 Knopf) - [same as above]
Offered in 1999 for £600
The Sacred Wood (1920 Methuen) (1921 Knopf) - essays
[These first appeared as anonymous pieces in the Times Literary Supplement]

1921-1925
The Waste Land (1922 Boni & Liveright NY) (1923 Hogarth Press)
UK Edition Offered in 1999 for £2500
Homage to John Dryden (1924 Hogarth Press) - poems
Poems 1909-25 (1925 Faber & Gwyer) (1932 Harcourt Brace)

1926-1930
Journey of the Magi (1927 Faber Ariel Poem No 8) - 5000 copies
(1927 Rudge) - 27 copies only - E McKnight Kauffer
Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927 OUP) - address
(Ed) Ezra Pound : Selected Poems (1928 Faber & Gwyer)
A Song for Simeon (1928 Faber Ariel Poem No 16)
For Lancelot Andrewes : Essays on Style and Order (1928) (1929 Doubleday)
Dante (1929) - Essay. 125 Signed on hand-made paper
Animula (1929 Faber Ariel Poem No 23) 400 signed - Gertrude Hermes
Ash Wednesday (1930 Fountain Press NY/Faber) - 600 signed (1930) (1930 Putnam)
(Trans) Anabasis : A Poem by St J Perse (1930) (1938 Harcourt Brace)
Marina (1930 Faber Ariel Poem No 29) - E McKnight Kauffer

1931-1935
Thoughts after Lambeth (1931) - essay
Triumphal March (1931 Faber Ariel Poem No 35) - E McKnight Kauffer
Charles Whibley : A Memoir (1931 English Assoc Pamphlet No 30)
(Intro) Pascal's Pensees (1931 Dent)
Selected Essays 1917-1932 (1932) (1932 HB)
John Dryden : The Poet, the Dramatist, The Critic (1932 Holliday NY)
Sweeney Agonistes (1932) - drama fragment
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) (1933 Harvard UP)
After Strange Gods (1934) (1934 HB) - Lectures
The Rock : A Pageant Play (1934) (1934 HB)
Elizabethan Essays (1934)
Murder in the Cathedral (1935 Goulden) (1935) (1935 HB) - play

1936-1940
Essays Ancient and Modern (1936) (1936 HB)
Collected Poems 1909-1935 (1936) (1936 HB)
The Family Reunion (1939) (1939 HB) - play
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) - D/W by Eliot (1939 HB)
(1940 Illustrated edition) - Nicolas Bentley
The Idea of a Christian Society (1939) (1940 HB) - Lectures
The Waste Land and Other Poems (1940) (1955 HB)
East Coker (1940 1/-)

1941-1945
Burnt Norton (1941)
(Ed) A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941) (1943 Scribner)
Points of View (1941) - Essays
The Dry Salvages (1941 1/-)
(Ed) Introducing James Joyce : A Selection of Joyce's Prose (1942 Faber 3/6)
The Classics And the Man of Letters (1942 OUP) - address to the Classical Assoc
The Music of Poetry (1942 Jackson & Co, Glasgow) - Lecture
Little Gidding (1942)
Reunion By Destruction (1943 undated Vacher & Sons) - address
Four Quartets (1943 HB) (1944)
[Consists of : Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages & Little Gidding. It was considered
by the poet to be a single work]
What is a Classic ? : An address delivered before the Virgil Society on the 16th October, 1944
(1944) - 32pp

1946-1950
(Preface) The Dark Side of the Moon (1946 Faber)
On Poetry (1947 Concord, Mass) - address. 750 copies distrib free
Milton (1947 Cumberledge 2/6) - Lecture in Cambridge. 500 copies
A Sermon (1948 in Cambridge) - 300 given out free
Selected Poems (1948 Penguin) (1967 HB)
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948) (1949 HB)
From Poe to Valery (1949 HB) - 1500 copies
The Undergraduate Poems (1949 Harvard Advocate, Mass) - 1000 copies
The Aims of Poetic Drama (1949 Poets' Theatre Guild)
The Cocktail Party (1949) (1950 HB) - play
Poems Written in Early Youth (1950 PP) - 12 printed

1951-1955
Poetry and Drama (1951 Cambridge, Mass) - lecture
The Value and Use of Cathedrals in England Today (1952 Chichester Cathedral)
Address to Members of the London Library (1952 Queen Anne Press) - 500 copies
The Complete Poems and Plays (1909-1950) (1952 HB)
Selected Prose (1953 Penguin 2/-)
American Literature and the American Language (1953 Washington University) - 500 copies
(Ed) Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (1954) (1954 New Directions)
The Three Voices of Poetry (1953 NBL) (1954 CUP, US)
Selected Poems (1954)
The Confidential Clerk : A Play (1954) (1954 HB)
Religious Drama : Medieval and Modern (1954 House of Books, NY) - 300 signed
Offered in 1999 for £495
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954 Faber Ariel Poems) (1956 Farrar Straus) - David Jones
The Literature of Politics (1955 Conservative Political Centre) - Address

1956-1965
The Frontiers of Criticism (1956 Minnesota) - Lecture. 10,050 copies distrib free
On Poetry and Poets (1957 21/-) (1957 FS) - Essays
The Elder Statesman (1959) (1959 FS) - Play
Geoffrey Faber 1889-1961 (1961) - Memoir. 100 copies distrib free
Collected Plays (1962)
George Herbert (1962 NBL, Longmans 3/6)
Collected Poems 1909-1962 (1963) (1963 HB)
Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F H Bradley (1964) (1964 FS)
To Criticize the Critic & Other Writings (1965) (1965 FS)

Since 1966
Poems Written in Early Youth (1967) (1967 FS)
Poesie Giovanili (1967 Verona) - 1000 copies
The Complete Poems and Plays (1968)
The Waste Land : A Facsimile and Transcript (1971) (1971 HB)
Growltiger's Last Stand (1986 £5.95) - Errol Le Cain
The Letters of T S Eliot : Vol 1 1898-1922 (1988 Faber) - 500 numbered
Eeldrop and Appleplex (1992 Foundling Press) - 500 numbered
A Song for Simeon (nd. Ariel Poem) - E McKnight Kauffer
Journey of the Magi (nd. Ariel Poem) - E McKnight Kauffer
Inventions of the March Hare : Poems 1909-1917 (1996 Faber £30) - edited by Christopher Rocks

READING
F O Matthiessen : The Achievement of Eliot (1935, 1947)
Clive Sansom : The Poetry of T S Eliot (1947 OUP)
Helen L Gardner : The Art of Eliot (1949)
Donald Gallup : Eliot - A Bibliography (1952)
George Williamson : A Reader's Guide to Eliot (1953 New York)
Hugh Kenner : The Invisible Poet (1959)
Donald Gallup : T S Eliot - A Bibliography (1969 Faber)
Northrop Frye : T S Eliot (1963 Edinburgh)
Mildred Martin : A Half-Century of Eliot Criticism (c1965 Kaye & Ward £7.50)
R Sencourt : T S Eliot (1971)
T S Matthews : Great Tom - Notes towards the Definition of T S Eliot (1974)
Balachandra Rajan : The Overwhelming Question - A Study of the Poetry of T S Eliot
(1976 Univ of Toronto Press)
L Gordon : Eliot's Early Years (1977)
Peter Ackroyd : T S Eliot - A Life (1984 Hamish Hamilton) (1984 S & S)
Anthony Julius : T S Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1995 CUP £30)
A David Moody : Tracing T S Eliot's Spirit - Essays on His Poetry & Thought (1996 CUP £30)
Denis Donoghue : Words Alone - The Poet T S Eliot (2001 Yale UP £17.95)
Carole Seymour-Jones : Painted Shadow - The Life of Vivienne Eliot (2001 Constable)