The Ariel Poems

A cherished part of his oeuvre, the ''Ariel Poems'' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. (''Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,'' said Eliot of the series, ''so I kept it for myself.'') That pamphlet series inventively paired an unpublished poem by a leading writer of the day with new artwork from an eminent artist. Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon, Barnett Freedman and John Nash were among the co...