Works by T.S. Eliot

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Works by T.S. Eliot

Works are divided between poetry, plays, and nonfiction literary/social criticism or essays.

Poetry  

  1. The Burial of the Dead
  2. A Game of Chess
  3. The Fire Sermon
  4. Death by Water
  5. What the Thunder Said
    Notes

    Four Quartets

  • Burnt Nortan (1935)
  • East Coker (1940)
  • The Dry Salvages (1941)
  • Little Gidding (1942)

    Ariel Poems

  • Journey of the Magi (1927)
  • A Song for Simeon (1928)
  • Animula (1929)
  • Marina (1930)
  • The Cultivation of Christmas Trees (1954)

    Minor Poems

  • Eyes that last I saw in tears
  • The wind sprang up at four o'clock
  • Five-Finger Exercises
    1. Lines to a Persian Cat
    2. Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier
    3. Lines to a Duck in the Park
    4. Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre.
    5. Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg
  • Landscapes
    1. New Hampshire
    2. Virginia
    3. Usk
    4. Rannoch, by Glencoe
    5. Cape Ann
  • Lines for an Old Mann

    Occasional Verses

  • Defence of the Islands
  • A Note on War Poetry
  • To the Indians who Died in Africa
  • To Walter de la Mare
  • A Dedication to my wife

    Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

  • The Naming of Cats
  • The Old Gumbie Cat
  • Growltiger's Last Stand
  • The Rum Tum Tiger
  • The Song of the Jellicles
  • Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
  • Old Deuteronomy
  • Of the Awful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
  • Mr. Mistoffelees
  • MacaVity: the Mystery Cat
  • Gus: the theatre Cat
  • Bustopher Jones: the Cat about Town
  • Skimbleshanks: the Railway Cat
  • The Ad-dressing of Cats

Plays  

  • The Rock (1934)
  • Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
  • The Family Reunion (1939)
  • The Cocktail Party (1949)
  • The Confidential Clerk (1954)
  • The Elder Statesman (1958)

Nonfiction Works  

  • The Second-Order Mind (1920)
  • Homage to John Dryden (1924)
  • Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1928)
  • For Lancelot Andrewes (1928)
  • The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)
  • After Strange Gods (1934)
  • Elizabethan Essays (1934)
  • Essays Ancient and Modern (1936)
  • The Idea of a Christian Society (1940)
  • Notes Toward a Definition of Culture (1948)
  • Poetry and Drama (1951)
  • The Three Voices of Poetry (1954)
  • On Poetry and Poets (1957)
  • The Metaphysical Poets
  • Tradition and the Individual Talent