The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300119947)

The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century

One of the twentieth century's most powerful--and controversial--works, The Waste Land waspublished 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 cameto 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.

Author: T. S. Eliot
ISBN-10: 0300119941
ISBN-13: 9780300119947
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.10w x 0.73d

Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended