T.S. Eliot

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His "Four Quartets" begins, "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future"; I like the ones about cats T.S. Eliot DD $1,000 J POETRY TIME 2025-12-15 #9456
"And that is the name that you never will guess... but the cat himself knows, and will never confess" (T.S.) Eliot $400 J IN THE WORDS OF THE POET 2025-05-30 #9345
It took this poet 5 years to sell 500 copies of his first book, "Prufrock & Other Observations" (T.S.) Eliot $800 J POETS 2022-05-17 #8642
He wrote many of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" for his godchildren Eliot $800 DJ POETRY COLLECTIONS 2021-11-18 #8514
In 1920s London Virginia Woolf & others were baffled by this transplanted American poet's habit of wearing green face powder T.S. Eliot $1,600 DJ POET-POURRI 2021-01-29 #8325
In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" (T.S.) Eliot DD $5,000 DJ POETRY 2020-04-15 #8203
He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem T.S. Eliot FJ POETS 2019-02-13 #7928
He thought "Four Quartets" was the best of his own poems T.S. Eliot $2,000 DJ POETS & POETRY 2018-06-22 #7790
Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man T.S. Eliot FJ POETRY 2015-07-20 #7116
"Old Possum" T.S. Eliot $400 DJ POETS' MONIKERS 2015-04-06 #7041
He explained, "The naming of cats is a difficult matter, it isn't just one of your holiday games" (T.S.) Eliot $200 J POETRY & THEE 2014-11-04 #6932
Funds provided by his widow were used to set up a literary charity called Old Possum's Practical Trust T.S. Eliot FJ POETS 2013-09-16 #6666
"April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" (T.S.) Eliot $800 DJ QUOTH THE POET 2012-10-18 #6459
His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" Eliot $1,200 DJ POETIC QUESTIONS 2011-04-04 #6121
In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines T.S. Eliot FJ POETS 2009-10-14 #5768
A poem by this author asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" T.S. Eliot $1,600 DJ WAXING POETIC 2008-12-22 #5591
Poet who wrote, "I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones" (sure sounds like a "Waste Land") (T.S.) Eliot $1,600 DJ POETS & POETRY 2008-11-21 #5570
He dedicated the 1922 poem "The Waste Land" to his friend Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot $200 J POETS & POETRY 2008-09-17 #5523
His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" says, "In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo" T.S. Eliot $1,200 DJ POETS 2007-11-19 #5336
"The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot $200 J POET-TREE 1999-03-18 #3354
His "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" inspired a Broadway musical T.S. Eliot $800 DJ POETS & POETRY 1996-02-21 #2648
In the early 1900s, this author of "The Waste Land" edited the Harvard Advocate T.S. Eliot $1,000 DJ POETRY 1995-07-18 #2522
In 1971, a copy of his original manuscript for "The Waste Land" was published, with an introduction by his widow T.S. Eliot $600 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-11-29 #2126
Nicknamed "Old Possum", he wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" T.S. Eliot $400 J POETS 1993-03-24 #1978
He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno" (T.S.) Eliot $1,000 DJ POETRY 1992-02-24 #1731
He said his title for "The Waste Land" was suggested by a book on the Grail legend T.S. Eliot $500 J POETS & POETRY 1991-09-26 #1624
On Ezra Pound's advice, he cut "The Waste Land" to about half its original length T.S. Eliot $500 J POETRY 1991-01-11 #1470
Irving Babbitt, Geo. Santayana & Bertrand Russell were among this Prufrock poet's teachers at Harvard Eliot $200 J POETS & POETRY 1990-11-09 #1425
He dedicated "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, whom he called the better craftsman T.S. Eliot $600 DJ POETRY 1988-12-19 #991
In his poetry "cat"alogue are "Gus: The Theatre Cat!" & "Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town" T.S. Eliot $200 DJ POETRY 1986-11-20 #509
His poems were the catalyst for "Cats" T.S. Eliot $400 DJ POETRY 1985-03-15 #135
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