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ARIEL POEMS


Main article: Ariel Poems (Faber)


"Journey of the Magi"


  • First published August 25, 1927.

  • Numbered 8 in the series.

  • Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

  • Numbered A9 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.


" Journey Of The Magi " is an account of the journey from the point of view of one of the magi.


"A Song for Simeon"


  • First published September 24, 1928

  • Numbered 16 in the series.

  • Drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer.

  • Numbered A11 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.




"Animula"


  • First published October 9, 1929.

  • Numbered 23 in the series.

  • Wood-engravings by Gertrude Hermes.

  • Numbered A14 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.




"Marina"


  • First published September 25, 1930.

  • Numbered 29 in the series.

  • Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

  • Numbered A17 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.




"Triumphal March"


  • First published October 29, 1931.

  • Numbered 35 in the series.

  • Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

  • Numbered A19 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.


While this poem was published as part of Faber & Faber's series of
"Ariel Poems" it is not included with the rest of poems in
the "Ariel Poems" section of Eliot's collected poems. It appears as
Section 1 of "Coriolan" in the "Unfinished Poems" section.


"The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"


  • First published October 26, 1954.

  • Part of a newer series of "Ariel Poems" published by Faber & Faber.

  • Illustrated by David Jones.

  • Numbered A66 in Gallup's bibliography of Eliot's works.




REFERENCES


  • Eliot, T.S. ''Collected Poems: 1909-1962'' Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1963

  • Gallup, Donald. ''T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography (A Revised and Extended Edition)'' Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1969



FURTHER READING


The following books have chapters on Eliot's "Ariel Poems":
  • Hugh Kenner, ''The Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot''

  • Grover Smith, ''T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning''

  • B.C Southam, ''A Guide to The Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot''

  • George Williamson, ''A Readers Guide to T.S. Eliot: A Poem by Poem Analysis''