Links to TS Eliot’s earlier works readable online:
Poetry
The “Harvard Advocate” Poems (1907-1910)
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
Poems (1920)
Accessible Eliot, an ongoing multi-media, student-annotated, critical edition of the work
The Waste Land
The Waste Land, 1922: the full authorised text, with notes
TS Eliot on The Waste Land – comments on the poem by Eliot himself
(There are several explorations of The Waste Land on the page of Lectures/Articles/Programmes)
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Hypertext and annotated versions
Quotations and references in these versions are explained and linked to the texts from which they are drawn:
The Waste Land, annotated – A stunning annotated version of The Waste Land created using AI (Claude Fable 5.1) by Professor Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. This beautifully designed and readily accessible resource, based upon the original 1922 text now out of copyright in the US, offers a variety of ways to see the poem’s references and sources alongside the text.Various pathways also allow a reader to follow, for example, the places, languages or voices within the poem. There are links to readings, music and birdsong from the poem, even an opportunity to ‘turn the Tarot cards’.
The Waste Land – a good hypertext version, with explanatory references, sources and a map
Exploring The Waste Land – a learning resource providing both the poem with notes, hyperlinks etc, and a Supplementary Section of related essays and resources
The Waste Land – line-by-line commentary – a combination of knowledgeable contributions and explanations, mixed with other less valuable observations
The Waste Land infographic – A visual guide to the poem’s references
He Do The Police in Different Voices – A website for exploring the different voices in The Waste Land
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Downloadable versions
Project Gutenberg offers some of Eliot’s works now out of copyright as free downloads in a range of electronic formats for eBook readers, mobiles etc.
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Known increasingly as the source material for the musical Cats, John Sutherland provides An Introduction to Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats for The British Library, with the story of its origins and contents accompanied by pictures of its manuscripts and accompanying letters.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Essays
An Introduction to Eliot’s prose by Professor Ron Schuchard
The Complete Prose of TS Eliot – the online critical edition (requires institutional access or subscription)
Early essays A number of pre-1922 essays, including his Reflections on vers libre
The Sacred Wood Collection of Eliot’s essays on poetry and criticism
Eliot on Milton – his two essays of 1936 and 1960
Poetry & Drama 1951
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Fiction
The only piece of fiction by the adult Eliot, published in two parts in 1917 in The Little Review
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The Complete Prose of TS Eliot
The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot gathers for the first time in one place his collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose, in a comprehensive eight-volume critical edition. The project is now complete and accessible online – access is by subscription. Full details, access and index are here
An article on the background to this project is here
Printed works
All of Eliot’s work in print in the UK can be found at Faber & Faber
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