Ara Vus Prec

Name: Ara Vus Prec
Author: T. S. Eliot
ISBN: 9783989731943

by T. S. Eliot

60 pages2024Liese. Outside The Box, AndreasISBN 9783989731943

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About this book

This volume contains some of Eliot's earliest work that did not make the 'final cut' when he put together his Collected Poems many years later. The title Ara Vus Prec contains a spelling mistake. It is meant to be Ara Vos Prec, referring to a line by Arnaut Daniel, the great renaissance troubadour poet, who features in Dante's Inferno. The provencal words mean literally "to you I pray" or more loosely "I beg you" and Eliot apologised that he didn't know enough Provencal and that's why he got it wrong. After copies went to print, the 'u' was fixed to an 'o' including labels being reattached to the spine. Very early and rare Eliot work. (Goodreads) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

Publication Details

Publisher: Liese. Outside The Box, Andreas
Published: 2024
Pages: 60
ISBN: 9783989731943
Language: English

About T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915, is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.[4] It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Order of Merit in 1948. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot