Everyman's Library: EliotFrom the Nobel Prize winning authorand the most influential poet of the twentieth centurycomes a beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets edition that includes the masterpieces The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot (1888 1965) was the dominant force in twentieth century British and American poetry. With his poems, he introduced an edgy, disenchanted, utterly contemporary version of French Symbolism to the English speaking world.