We know of no other modern poet who can more adequately and movingly reveal to us the inextricable tangle of the sordid and the beautiful that make up life.[An achievement] of the first importance for English poetry. In it a mind fully alive in the age compels a poetic triumph.The first edition of T. S. Eliots masterpiece reappears with a major introduction by Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Muldoon.