This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important
early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, "The Waste
land," which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of
modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with
bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented
narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in
the aftermath of WWI.
The Wast Land is a modernist literary masterpiece.
Contains a number of early poems, including "Spleen, The Death of St.
Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes, Gerontion, The
Hippopotmaus," and "Sweeny Among the Nightingales."
T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is
one of America's greatest poets.
Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremost scholar of
moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly for the "New Yorker"
and "The New Republic."
Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets, including
W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert, and the
forthcoming "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete."