Product Description

The poems that "established T.S. Eliot decisively as the voice of a disillusioned generation".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #411446 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-16
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1 pages

From Library Journal
Written when Eliot was working as a bank clerk and heavily edited by his friend Ezra Pound, 1922's The Waste Land could probably take the prize as the most important English-language poem of the 20th century. This 75th-anniversary edition includes the full text plus notes and an afterword by scholar/editor Christopher Ricks.
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Ingram
Celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Eliot's most influential poem, this commemorative edition of the the masterpiece, first published in 1922, features a new afterword by Christopher Ricks. Reprint.

About the Author
Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets, Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation, as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature.