BookFour Quartets
It condenses modern day living experience to a literal reality. Reading it is almost like living it. A genuine masterpiece so unfathomable, yet so close to the reader. An experience worth more than a lifetime.
/Keshab Anand Pegu, India
It tells of everyday life, painting a picture with vibrant strokes. T.S. Eliot is one of the world's most famous authors for his perspective on everyday life and interesting symbolism.
/Alex Shell, United States
BookMurder in the Cathedral
I have read this book also in English and in Greek (the translation of G. Seferis). I like this book because of a point on it, the point of the fourth tempter. There T S Eliot puts readers in front of their selves because the fourth tempter is the personality of each one of the readers of this book.
/Giannis Christopoulos, Greece
I believe that this is one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Mr Eliot's poetic capacity reaches its peak, and the plot opens up endless possibilities both for staging and reading. I would say that this play can be read as well as seen. Lingering on each phrase allows you to enter unexpected paths to discovery.
/Monica Godo, Spain
BookOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats
I like this book of poems because it combines good rhyming and syllable schemes with a funny theme.
/Dhario, United States
BookPrufrock and Other Observations
Revolution in style and the character's psychological crisis makes you challenge the reality and develop. This is the work of a great self-motivation.
/Oleg Semenov, Ukraine
It enthralled me since I was a teenager. I appreciate the interior dialogue of an old man who struggles between desire and phobia. The finality of life paralyzes Prufrock. I suppose I identify with the persona because I knew people like him growing up. Wonderful people, great in their own right who have "bitten of matters with a smile" but who cannot deal with the matters, really. They talk in has-beens and long-agos and the right now is the most frightening moment they have ever experienced. I think great literature haunts you because you can "see" or "have lived" the truth in it. Great themes come together as Prufrock pans scenes from his life. Themes packed into Dante, Lazarus, Marvell, Hamlet, Christ, John the Baptist . The Big Question is what has a man like Prufrock got to tell me? What can I learn from this spiritually moribund person? Life, living, death, struggle, entertainment, enjoyment, touch, compassion. The poem may be about seventy lines and everytime I read it through I am amazed at how I've explored so many human facets in the fifteen or so minutes it takes me to "put on Prufrock".
/Regina Keels, United States
BookThe Waste Land
As a poet and an essayist, I very much admire the concept of T.S. Eliot's poetry. Though it has some technical value, it is often spared by the beauty of its lyrical quality, especially to some students. Reading Eliot is a pleasure and an experience for me as a writer, and whenever I felt the urge of writing my pieces, it is through Eliot's poetry that I relish most - for this is the reason why I became a writer, and a poet in my country, Philippines.
/Prof. Rommel O., Philippines
Very modern poetry. T.S. Eliot writes like an angel, so divine and powerful.
/Katrina Cendana, Philippines
I like this book. Also I like his thoughts. I hope I get this prize, that's what I live for.
/Yara, Egypt
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