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A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth century�s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in twentieth century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work�including �The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock� (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935)�continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot�s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning volume, now with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.