After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. Description As a poet, editor and essayist, T.S. Part of a set of six beautiful, collectable hardcover gift editions.
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