| The Waste Land [Facsimile of 1922 First Edition] Contributor(s): Eliot, T. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1614274312 ISBN-13: 9781614274315 Publisher: Martino Fine Books OUR PRICE: $4.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6" W x 9" (0.23 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 2013 Reprint of 1922 Edition. "The Waste Land" is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month," "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih." |