The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

Author: Matthew Hollis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2022-12-20

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0393651835

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A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot’s enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism, and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists—of Ezra Pound, who edited it; of Vivien Eliot, who sustained it; and of T. S. Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the seams of the work. The result is an unforgettable story of lives passing in opposing directions and the astounding literary legacy they would leave behind.


The Waste Land

The Waste Land

Author: Martin Rowson

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780857420411

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Private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries, namely T.S. Eliot's The waste land.


T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

Author: Nick Selby

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780231124249

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Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of exper


Young Eliot

Young Eliot

Author: Robert Crawford

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-01-29

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1473523206

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Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American who defied his parents’ wishes and committed himself to life as an immigrant in England, authoring work astonishing in its scope and hurt. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Robert Crawford shows how Eliot’s background in Missouri, Massachusetts and Paris made him a lightning conductor for modernity. Most impressively, Young Eliot shows how deeply personal were the experiences underlying masterpieces from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ to The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.


The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems

The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998-01-26

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0486400611

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A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more). Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.


Poems

Poems

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.


The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0300133561

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Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land "includes as a bonus""all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history. "More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of "The Waste Land" ever published."--Adam Kirsch, "New Criterion ""For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition."--"Publishers Weekly"


The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

Author: Gabrielle McIntire

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1107050677

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This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land that will be invaluable to scholars, students, and general readers.


Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Author: A. Booth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1137482842

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.


After the Waste Land

After the Waste Land

Author: Samuel Bowles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1317477413

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This critique of Reaganomics attempts to provide alternatives to both the supply experiments of the 1980s and neoliberal strategies of austerity. It presents arguments for economic democracy with a worker-oriented blueprint for improving productivity, growth, employment and economic justice.