The Waste Land and Other Writings
The Waste Land and Other Writings
Author: T.S. Eliot
Desc: Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations Poems (1920) and The Sacred Wood Introduction by Mary Karr First published in 1922 “The Waste Land ” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption Eliot’s poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote Eliot “articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.” As commanding as his verse Eliot’s criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliot’s most important essays.