Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet' s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature-" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " The Waste Land, " " The Hollow Men, " and " Ash Wednesday" -as well as many other fine selections from Eliot' s early work.