Revisiting The waste land / Lawrence Rainey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rainey, Lawrence S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Waste land.

Eliot, T. S.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed for more than eighty years. He shines new light on Eliot's greatest achievement and on the poem's place in the modern canon. Far from the austere and sober monument to neoclassicism that admirers have praised, The Waste Land turns out to be something quite different: something grim and wild, unruly and intractable, violent and shocking and radically indeterminate, yet also deeply compassionate. Rainey looks at how Eliot went about writing the poem and at the sequence in which he composed the parts. Arriving at new insights into the poet's intentions, Rainey unsettles tradition-bound views of the poem and shows us that The Waste Land is even stranger and more startling than we knew.

Contents:

Preface

With automatic hand : writing The Waste Land

The price of modernism : publishing The Waste Land

Immense. Magnificent. Terrible. : Reading The Waste Land

Documenting the documents : synoptic bibliographical descriptions of Eliot's writings, 1898-1922. Table 1. Letters, 1898-1922 ; Table 2. Student papers, 1910-1915 ; Table 3. Poetry and prose, 1910-1922 ; Table 4. Waste Land manuscripts.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-151) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-73056-4

9786611730567

0-300-12979-3

OCLC:

1024012432