A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot's most groundbreaking poems "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper." Those famous concluding lines of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" have resonated with readers for nearly a century. As with "April...
The early works that established Eliot as a modern master
The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot's notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and Poems (1920). Updated and expanded editorial matter by Michael North. Invaluable contextual materials on The Waste Land's sources and its composition and publication...
Loosely based on the Arthurian legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, "The Waste Land", which first appeared in 1922, is a landmark work of Modernist poetry. Containing hundreds of allusions and quotations from other works, "The Waste Land" is marked by a disjointed...
Written by T. S. Eliot, the poem "The Waste Land" is widely seen as one of the most famous poems of the 20th century. This edition includes the full poem as well as T. S. Eliot's notes. Furthermore, other selected poems by T.S. Eliot are featured in this book like "Gerontion",...
A Penguin Classic
The Waste Land was first published in 1922, in the aftermath of a world war and global pandemic. It has been translated into some 35 languages. Berkshire Publishing Group's centenary edition includes, in addition to the title poem, a number of Eliot's best-known early poems,...
This volume includes the title poem as well as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of...
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'
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The collected poems of T. S. Eliot, "one of the great poets" (Robert Pinsky), including "The Waste Land," his most celebrated, era-defining poem Waste Land and Other Poems compiles the crucial work at the heat of the Modernist movement. Along with the title poem, this volume...
This volume brings together the full contents of Prufrock and Other Observations(1917), Poems (1920), and The Waste Land(1922), together with an informative introduction and a selection of background materials. Included as well are two of Eliot's most influential essays, "Tradition...
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation...