AVintageClassicseditionofT.S.Eliot’smostgroundbreakingpoems“Thisisthewaytheworldends,notwithabang,butawhimper.“ThosefamousconcludinglinesofT.S.Eliot’s“TheHollowMen“haveresonatedwithreadersfornearlyacentury.Aswith“Aprilisthecruelestmonth,“fromTheWasteLandand“DoIdaredisturbtheuniverse?,“from“TheLoveSongofJ.AlfredPrufrock,“Eliot’swordshavepermanentlyenteredourculturalbloodstream.Throughthepoemsinthisvolume,representinghisfirstfourpublishedcollections,Eliotreshapedmodernliteraturewithadaringandoverpoweringvisionofadecayingcivilizationandtheurgentneedforspiritualrenewal.
