For For students of Eliot's development who want to see the poet before Prufrock. Not for general readers.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Eliot's school and Harvard poems of 1907-10, printed privately in 1950 and published in 1967. Juvenilia, for the student of his development.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical0 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Eliot's school and undergraduate poems, most of them first printed between 1907 and 1910 in the Harvard Advocate. The book was privately printed in Stockholm in 1950 in a very small edition and issued by Faber and Faber in 1967, after Eliot's death. It shows the young poet before Prufrock, writing in conventional forms and beginning to find his own voice under the influence of the French poet Jules Laforgue.
