Ara vus prec

Ara Vus Prec is a small collection of poems by Eliot, published in 1919. It includes some of his sharply ironic verse in quatrain form, as well as poems about tired, uneasy figures in modern settings, and it drew on European literature and history. The book comes between his first volume and The Waste Land and shows his style hardening into something more compressed and learned. It is of interest as a step on the way to his major work.