A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of
the twentieth century’s major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot,
Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan
O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart,  Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily
Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith, Nicole Sealey, Jorie Graham, Kevin Young, Louise
Glück, Eileen Myles, Carol Muske-Dukes, Campbell McGrath, Robert Hass, and
Monica Youn.


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 audiobook, with an
introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.


PERFORMER TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction by Vijay Seshadri: Vijay Seshadri


La Figlia che Piange: T.S. Eliot


Portrait of a Lady: Daniel Halpern


Preludes: T.S. Eliot


Rhapsody on a Windy Night: Meghan O'Rourke


Mr. Apollinax: Natalie Diaz


The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: Frank Bidart


Gerontion: Joy Harjo


Dans le Restaurant: Rosanna Warren


Whispers of Immortality: Emily Jungmin Yoon


The Waste Land: Willem Dafoe and Tracy K. Smith


The Hollow Men: Nicole Sealey


Ash Wednesday: Jorie Graham


Marina: Kevin Young


Journey of the Magi: Louise Gluck


Coriolan: Eileen Myles


Choruses from “The Rock”:
I, III, IV, VII: Carol Muske-Dukes
(III, VII) and Natasha Trethewey (I, IV)


Old Deuteronomy: Campbell McGrath


Sweeney Agonistes: Vijay Seshadri and Rosanna Warren


From Four Quartets: Burnt Norton; Little Gidding:
Robert Hass


Tradition and Individual Talent: Monica Youn


Text from Collected Poems, 1909-1962:Copyright 1930, 1940, 1941,
1942, 1943, 1963 by T.S. Eliot; Copyright 1954, 1956, 1959, 1963 by Thomas
Stearns Eliot; Copyright renewed 1958, 1962, 1964 by Thomas Stearns
Eliot; Copyright 1934, 1936 by Harcourt Brace & Company; Copyright 1948 by
Faber & Faber Limited; Copyright renewed 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1982,
1984, 1991 by Esme Valerie Eliot; Text from Old Possum’s Book of Practical
Cats: Copyright 1939 by T.S. Eliot; Copyright renewed 1967 by Esme Valerie
Eliot.