| The Waste Land and Other Poems Contributor(s): Eliot, T. S. (Author), Kermode, Frank (Editor) |
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ISBN: 014243731X ISBN-13: 9780142437315 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: This collection of Eliot's first three volumes of verse includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " "Portrait of a Lady, " "Gerontion, " and others. T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 821.912 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.08" W x 7.78" (0.25 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Penguin Classic While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, "The Waste Land" is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. This edition includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Gerontion," and more. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |