Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose

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One of the twentieth century s most powerfuland controversialworks, “The Waste Land “was” “published in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot s masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing “The Waste Land,” ” “seven of them never before published in book form. The volume is enriched with period photographs and a London map of locations mentioned in the poem.
Featured in the book are Lawrence Rainey s groundbreaking account of how “The Waste Land “came” “to be composed; a history of the reactions of admirers and critics; and full annotations to the poem and Eliot s essays. The edition transforms our understanding of one of the greatest modernist writers and the magnificent poem that became a landmark in literary history.”