<p>Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of <b>The Complete Poems and Plays</b>, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from <b>Prufrock and Other Observations</b> (1917) to <b>Four Quartets</b> (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as <b>The Waste Land</b>, <b>Old Possum''s Book of Practical Cats</b> and <b>Murder in the Cathedral</b>.<br><br>''Each year Eliot''s presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.'' Ted Hughes</p>