Poems (Hogarth Press)

UK-only; no US edition of this collection exists, and no original-language question arises. The census claim is confirmed: the Hogarth Poems precedes both Ara Vos Prec (The Ovid Press, London, February 1920) and any American collection. Two clarifications the census omits. First, this is not Eliot's first book — Prufrock and Other Observations (The Egoist, London, 1917) is. Second, the seven poems were afterwards absorbed into Ara Vos Prec and into the differently arranged US collection Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1920), whose sequence Pound arranged while Eliot set the order of Ara Vos Prec. Those two are firsts of their own contents, not editions of the Hogarth pamphlet — a first-thus trap in both directions.