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Published two years before his death, this collection includes all of Eliot’s poetry that he wished to preserve.

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  • “This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper”
  • “Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow For Thine is the KingdomBetween the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow Life is very longBetween the desireAnd the spasmBetween the potencyAnd the existenceBetween the essenceAnd the descentFalls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom”
  • “Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy”

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Let us go then, you and I,

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  1. T. S. Eliot (Author)

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  • Selected Poems Of Ezra Pound
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  • The Waste Land (A Norton Critical Edition)
  • The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
  • T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life

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