A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words (Kirkus Reviews). It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly (Chicago Sunday Tribune
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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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