T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his g
eneration. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every En
glish language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude.
Voted as Britain's fa
vourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection him
self in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing 'The Was
te Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Selected Poems is the perfec
t way to begin with one of the defining figures of the twentieth century.
Thi
s edition also features an introductory essay by Seamus Heaney.
