The waste land and other poems

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 (Author). Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010 (Added Author).

Summary: "While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what would become the definitive poem of the modern condition, and 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, contrmporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective.

Item details

ISBN: 014243731X
ISBN: 9780142437315
Physical Description: print
xxxiv, 108 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition: [New ed.].
Publisher: New York, N.Y., U.S.A : Penguin Books, 2003.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prufrock, and other observations (1917) -- Poems (1920) -- The waste land (1922).