A unique guide designed to help the readers of Eliot’s personally chosen collection, Selected Poems. Specific information about the poems and their development is included, as is a chronology of the poet’s life and work.

Originally published: A student's guide to the Selected poems of T.S. Eliot. 6th ed. London : Faber and Faber, 1994.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a Lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on a Windy Night -- Gerontion -- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar -- Sweeney Erect -- A Cooking Egg -- The Hippopotamus -- Whispers of Immortality -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service -- Sweeney Among the Nightingales -- The Waste Land: I The Burial of the Dead -- The Waste Land: II A Game of Chess -- The Waste Land: III The Fire Sermon -- The Waste Land: IV Death by Water -- The Waste Land: V What the Thunder Said -- The Hollow Men -- Ash-Wednesday -- Journey of the Magi -- A Song for Simeon -- Animula -- Marina -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus I -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus II -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus III -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus VII -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus IX -- Choruses from 'The Rock': Chorus X -- Appendix. The Composition of The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men' and Ash-Wednesday.