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| Eliot's major work, "The Wasteland", was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, in the end, an effective form for the expression of Eliot's view of the fragmentation and degeneration of modern life. Much of the poem's final shape was influenced by Ezra Pound, who served as Eliot's mentor in its writing--a fact which only emerged with the publication of a facsimile manuscript in 1972. |
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Key Information
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| Editors: |
Michael North, Valerie Eliot |
| Authors: |
Helen Hennessy Vendler · T. S. Eliot |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Classics |
| Fiction Genre: |
Poetry |
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Professional Reviews
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Ellmann, Richard, New York Review of Books: "The poem retains the air of a splendid feat....Eliot's remark to Spencer calls 'The Waste Land' a personal poem. His critical theory was that the artist should seek impersonality, but this was probably intended as...a means to direct emotion rather than let it spill.", Wilson, Edmund: "Eliot has developed a new technique, at once laconic, quick, and precise, for representing the transmutations of thought, the interplay of perception and reflection." |
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Book Editions
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- Hardcover
- Updated
- November 30, 2006
- Facts on File
- 9.5"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 1.3 lbs.
- 9780791093078
, - Paperback
- February 01, 1998
- Signet Classic
- 7"(h) x 4.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.15 lbs.
- 9780451526847
, - Paperback
- Facsimile
- 149
- February 01, 1993
- Mariner Books
- 10.25"(h) x 8.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 1.35 lbs.
- 9780156948708
, - Paperback
- 300
- December 01, 2000
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- 8.5"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.65 lbs.
- 9780393974997
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