

An edition of The Waste Land (1924)
By T. S. Eliot
Publish Date
1924
Publisher
The Hogarth Press
Language
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Pages
79
Description:
Arguably the single most important poem of the Twentieth Century, paving the way for experimental verse for the next hundred years.
subjects: modernism, world war I, war, aftermath of war, disillusionment, horror, sex, Tarot, psychics, Shakleton expedition, Buddha, FIre Sermon, nursery rhymes, Chaucer, pastiche, allusion, surrealism, life
People: Buddha, Stetson, Madame Sosostris, Mr. Eugenides, Marie, Hieronymo, Ezra Pound.
Places: Falling towers, Jerusalem, Athens, Alexandria, Vienna, London, unreal city.
Times: London in the aftermath of the First World War, c 1922.