Few poets did more to alter the possibilities of twentieth-century English poetry than T. S. Eliot.

Bringing together more than five decades of writing, Collected Poems 1909–1962 traces the development of a poet whose work moved from urban alienation and psychological fragmentation towards increasingly complex questions of faith, history, language and spiritual experience.

The collection includes The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets, alongside shorter poems and later works. Eliot's poetry draws together literary quotation, religious symbolism, popular speech, philosophical speculation and the disjointed rhythms of modern life. His shifting voices and fractured structures challenge the possibility of a single, authoritative perspective, while his later writing increasingly examines time, memory and the limits of language in approaching transcendence.

Faber and Faber, London, 1990. Reprint of the 1974 edition, incorporating poems originally collected in 1963. Paperback with illustrated Faber wrappers. Light surface wear and minor rubbing to covers; some age-toning to pages. Internally appears clean and well preserved.