Collected Poems 1909–1935 gathers the formative and defining works of T. S. Eliot, one of the central voices of literary modernism. First issued in 1936, the volume established Eliot’s poetic canon during his lifetime, consolidating the poems that reshaped English-language poetry in the early twentieth century.
 
This collection includes many of Eliot’s most influential works, including:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Gerontion
The Waste Land
Ash Wednesday
The Ariel Poems
 
Through fractured imagery, spiritual inquiry, urban alienation, and classical allusion, Eliot articulated the anxieties of the modern world following industrialisation and the First World War. His fusion of philosophical depth, religious reflection, and experimental structure helped define literary modernism.
 
By the time of this 1947 impression, Eliot had already secured his reputation as a leading poet of the century (and would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year, 1948). This edition therefore represents a mature consolidation of his early and middle-period poetic achievement.