Poems: With the Waste Land
- ISBN-10
- 1727077474
- ISBN-13
- 9781727077476
- Series
- Poems
- Pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-06
- Author
- T. S. Eliot
Description
Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was the definitive poetic voice of the 20th century with the masterly rhythm of his verse, an incredible "image of its accelerated grimace," in the words of Eliot's friend and mentor, Ezra Pound. While getting better from a mental breakdown in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, 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 a diseased 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, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. It ranks among the most influential poetic works of the century. 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." This edition also includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Gerontion," and more.
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