title: The Complete Poems and Plays: 1909-1950
author:  T. S. Eliot 
description: Eliot's poetry ranges from the massively magisterial (<a href="/exec/obidos/Title-word=The%20Waste%20Land/${0}"> The Waste Land</a>), to the playfully pleasant (<a href="/exec/obidos/Title-word=Old%20Book%20Practical%20Cats/${0}"> Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</a>). This volume of Eliot's poetry and plays offers the complete text of these and most all of Eliot's poetry, including the full text of <a href="/exec/obidos/Title-word=Four%20Quartets/${0}">Four Quartets</a>. Winner of the <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/lists/awards/nobel.html/${0}">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>, Eliot exerted a profound influence on his contemporaries in the arts generally and this collection makes his genius clear.
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  ALSO BY PETER ACKROYD
  
  
  **Fiction**
  
  
  The Great Fire of London
  
  
  The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
  
  
  Hawksmoor
  
  
  Chatterton
  
  
  First Light
  
  
  English Music
  
  
  The House of Doctor Dee
  
  
  Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
  
  
  Milton in America
  
  
  The Plato Papers
  
  
  The Clerkenwell Tales
  
  
  The Lambs of London
  
  
  The Fall of Troy
  
  
  The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
  
  
  Three Brothers  
    
  
  
  **Nonfiction**
  
  
  Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession
  
  
  London: The Biography
  
  
  Albion:The Origins of the English Imagination
  
  
  Venice: Pure City
  
  
  London Under  
    
  
  
  **Biography**
  
  
  Ezra Pound and His World
  
  
  T. S. Eliot
  
  
  Dickens
  
  
  Blake
  
  
  The Life of Thomas More
  
  
  Shakespeare: The Biography  
    
  
  
  **Ackroyd’s Brief Lives**
  
  
  Chaucer
  
  
  J.M.W. Turner
  
  
  Newton
  
  
  Poe: A Life Cut Short  
    
  
  
  **Poetry**
  
  
  Ouch!
  
  
  The Dive