1934-54 A Collection of Faber and Faber Publications by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

Four first edition works published by Faber and Faber.

All bound in the publisher's original cloth, apart from 'Homage to Sextus Propertius', which is in the publisher's paper-covered boards. 

Comprised of the following:

'Homage to Sextus Propertius' (1934), written by Ezra Pound. In this work, Pound comments on the British Empire in 1917, using the figure of Propertius, a Latin elegiac poet around in the Augustan age.

'The Cocktail Party' (1950), by T. S. Eliot. Eliot's most successful play, this focuses on a troubled married couple who try and sort out their relationship issues thanks to the help of a mysterious stranger.

'Poetry and Drama' (1951), a lecture delivered at Harvard University in November 1950, addressing Eliot's literary output and style.

'The Confidential Clerk' (1954), a successful play by T. S. Eliot in which a wealthy entrepreneur attempts to smuggle his illegitimate son into his household under the pretence of acting as his "confidential clerk".