The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- Hard Cover
- London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1950
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1950. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Third printing. No jacket. Spine and boards lightly faded, ink note on half-title page. 1950 Hard Cover. 167 pp. A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "An authentic modern masterpiece" (New York Post). "Eliot really does portray real-seeming characters. He cuts down his poetic effects to the minimum, and then finally rewards us with most beautiful poetry" (Stephen Spender).