This volume contains the works Eliot personally selected to be preserved.

Prufrock-1917 -- Poems-1920 -- The waste land-1922 -- The hollow men-1925 -- Ash-Wednesday-1930 -- Ariel poems -- Unfinished poems -- Minor poems -- Choruses from 'The Rock'-1934 -- Four quartets -- Occasional verses. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- Portrait of a lady -- Preludes -- Rhapsody on a windy night -- Morning at the window -- The Boston Evening Transcript -- Aunt Helen -- Cousin Nancy -- Mr. Apollinax -- Hysteria -- Conversation Galante -- La Figlia che Piange -- Gerontion -- Burband with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar -- Sweeney erect -- A cooking egg -- Le directeur -- Mélange adultère de tout -- Lune de Miel -- The hippopotamus -- Dans le restaurant -- Whispers of immortality -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service -- Sweeney among the nightingales -- The Waste Land -- The burial of the dead -- A game of chess -- The fire sermon -- Death by water -- What the thunder said -- The hollow men -- Ash Wednesday -- Ariel poems -- Journey of the Magi -- A song for Simeon -- Animula -- Marina -- The cultivation of Christmas trees -- Sweeney Agonistes -- Fragment of a prologue -- Fragment of an agon -- Coriolan -- Triumphal March-1931 -- Difficulties of a statesman -- Eyes that last I saw in tears -- The wind sprang up at four o'clock -- Five-finger exercises -- Lines to a Persian cat -- Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier -- Lines to a duck in the park -- Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre. -- Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirsza Murad Ali Beg -- New Hampshire -- Virginia -- Usk -- Rannock, by Glencoe -- Cape Ann -- Lines for an old man -- Choruses from "The Rock" -- Four quartets -- Burnt Norton -- East Coker -- The dry salvages -- Little Gidding -- Occasional verses -- Defense of the islands -- A note on war poetry -- To the Indians who died in Africa -- To Walter de la Mare -- A dedication to my wife --