The Cocktail Party
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: March 18, 1964
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780156182898
First sentence: The drawing room of the Chamberlaynes' London flat.
Description: This drawing-room comedy is a modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. "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).