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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780375759345
ISBN: 0375759344
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 08, 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: January 08, 2002
Sales Rank: 17767
Studio: Modern Library
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First published in 1922, 'The Waste Land' is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot 'the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.'
As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays.
In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which 'The Waste Land' illuminates contemporary experience.
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Rating: - Just what I needed
perfect condition, fast shipping, and had ALL the Eliot poems I needed in additon to The Waste Land!! Thanks!
Rating: - Beautiful collection and engaging introduction by Mary Karr
I just finished a Modern Library anthology of T.S. Eliot's writings entitled simply "The Waste Land And Other Writings". Beginning with an entertaining if somewhat controversial introduction by Mary Karr, the next 234 pages provide a glimpse into Eliot's creative and critical mind. Being an autodidact, I confess ignorance about where Mr. Eliot stands in the esteem of academia today, but I was able to easily find - thanks to the internet - plenty of current syllabi showing that his works are still ... Read More
Rating: - Fear and Trembling
Yeah, "The Waste Land" is one of those poems that everyone has to read because it so forms our current cultural milieu. And it should be read for that reason. I think, however, that most people, because they read it for that reason, only respect the poem (and Eliot) and don't necessarily like it. They don't always feel it.
I'm one of that other kind of reader, though, that just loves this poem. I love it because I find in it such a profound articulation of a lostness, a despair, that I ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780375759345
ISBN: 0375759344
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 08, 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: January 08, 2002
Sales Rank: 17767
Studio: Modern Library