T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems

In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber & Gwyer, Ltd.,[1]: pp.50–51  after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922).

The first poem that Eliot wrote, "The Journey of the Magi", was released as the eighth in the series in August 1927.

[2] For the second, "A Song for Simeon", Eliot turned to an event at the end of Nativity narrative in the Gospel of Luke.

Four of the five poems were accompanied by illustrations by American avant garde artist E. McKnight Kauffer.

[5] Both editions of collected poems were published in the United States by Harcourt, Brace & Company.