T. S. Eliot (Major Poetic Works) - Statistics

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Year Hint Quotation Poetic Work % Correct
1922 Known for its slippage between satire and prophecy, and abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land" The Waste Land
96%
1917 A man laments his physical and intellectual inertia, lost opportunities, lack of spiritual progress, and unattained carnal love "Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table" Prufrock and Other Observations
87%
1925 Told from three perspectives, each a phase of the passing of a soul into one of death's kingdoms "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" The Hollow Men
63%
1943 Regarded by Eliot as his masterpiece, it consists of four long poems, each first published separately Footfalls echo in the memory / Down the passage which we did not take / Towards the door we never opened / Into the rose-garden Four Quartets
62%
1939 Book of light verse and the basis for the musical Cats "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter / When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES" Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
52%
1930 His first long poem written after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism "Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope" Ash-Wednesday
47%
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