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The Waste Land and Other Poems

T. S. Eliot

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English
Faber & Faber
01 July 2005
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . .

Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power today.
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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   120g
ISBN:   9780571097128
ISBN 10:   057109712X
Pages:   96
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Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Children's (6-12)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyce's Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou

Reviews for The Waste Land and Other Poems

For years thought lost, the original Waste Land ms. recently surfaced in the Berg Collection, acquired by the New York Public Library in 1968. The original, longer than the version finally published and with handwritten annotations by Pound and Eliot, is reproduced here in facsimile. The poet's widow, Valerie, who supervised the project, provides editorial notes and a bio-critical introduction. (Kirkus Reviews)


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