1920 poems

1920 poem written by Robert Frost

1919 poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats

1920 book by André Breton and Philippe Soupault

1920 poem written by Gerard Nolst Trenité demonstrating the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation

1920 poem written by Sara Teasdale

"Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 in Ara Vus Prec (his volume of collected poems published in London) and Poems (an almost identical collection published simultaneously in New York). The title is Greek for "little old man," and the poem is a dramatic monologue relating the opinions and impressions of an elderly man, which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived most of his life in the 19th century. Two years after it was published, Eliot considered including the poem as a preface to The Waste Land, but was talked out of thi