For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. --(Text refers to a previous edition)"

2013 Reprint of 1922 Edition. "The Waste Land" is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month," "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," and the...

This volume brings together four of T. S. Eliot's powerful collections into one. It includes such classic poems as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Gerontion," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "The Waste Land." It also includes poems that haven't been previously collected and a short story Eliot wrote, "Eeldrop and Appleplex."

Poetry. Critical Introduction by Jeremiah Webster. Starting with Eliot's infamous The Waste Land, the collection unfolds with some of Eliot's finest early poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," and "Preludes" before it takes the reader through a little known short story ("Eeldrop and Appleplex"), an homage to the Metric and Poetry of Ezra Pound, the singularly celebrated "Tradition and the Individual Talent," a reappraisal of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and, at last, an essay on Dante.

"Jeremiah Webster's brilliant Introduction...

T. S. Eliot's classic poem, The Waste Land, is among the masterpieces of English poetry, The poem links the past and the present and examines the wretched condition of mankind.

Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in this book, which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land in this book, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets . He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats