The Waste Land

Product Description Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars. Review 'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' -- Ted Hughes 'The Waste Land is one of the most important poems of the 20th century.' -- Andrew Motion ― Independent Eliot's Waste Land is I think the justification of the "movement", of our modern experiment, since 1900. -- Ezra Pound ― letter to Felix E. Schelling The Waste Land is unquestionably important, unquestionably brilliant . . . One of the most moving and original poems of our time. -- Conrad Aiken ― New Republic 'The Waste Land is Mr Eliot's greatest achievement.' -- E. M. Forster The Waste Land remains a great positive achievement, and one of the first importance for English poetry. In it a mind fully alive in the age compels a poetic triumph. -- F. R. Leavis 'a damn good poem . . . about enough, Eliot's poem, to make the rest of us shut up shop.' -- Ezra Pound World's Greatest Poem. ― Chicago Daily News Book Description A striking edition of this modernist masterpiece, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of T. S. Eliot's death. From the Back Cover Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilization between the two World Wars. About the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.