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The Waste Land and Other Poems: Including the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockby T S Eliot
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI. The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece. Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Death of St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among the Nightingales. T.S. Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is one of America's greatest poets. Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the New Yorker and The New Republic. Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete. @DeadFlowers Note From Ezra Pound: Maybe cut 75%? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less Synopsis:This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, "The Waste Land", which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreates the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
About the AuthorThomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet. Table of ContentsSelected and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler Introduction by Helen Vendler Spleen The Death of Saint Narcissus The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Preludes The Boston Evening Transcript Hysteria La Figlia Che Piange Gerontion The Hippopotamus Whispers of Immortality Sweeney Among the Nightingales The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash-Wednesday Journey of the Magi Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg (From Five-finger Exercises) Annotations Selected Bibliography
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