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