For For collectors and students of Eliot's early publishing history. General readers will find the same poems, and more, in the 1920 Poems.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A seven-poem pamphlet hand-printed by the Woolfs in 1919; every poem in it was reprinted in the 1920 collection. Of bibliographical interest.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A small pamphlet of seven poems, hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press in Richmond and issued in 1919. It was Eliot's second separately published book of verse and the first to show the quatrain poems he wrote after Prufrock, satirical pieces in tight rhymed stanzas that include the Sweeney and church poems. All of its contents were taken into Ara Vos Prec and the American Poems of 1920, which is how most readers know them.
