The annotated waste land with Eliot's contemporary prose

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Rainey, Lawrence S., contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Yale University Press, 2005

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the twentieth century s most powerfuland controversialworks, "The Waste Land "was" "published 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 "came" "to 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."

Contents:

A note on the text

The waste land

Editor's annotations to The waste land

Historical collation

T.S. Eliot's contemporary prose

London letter, March 1921

The romantic Englishman, the comic spirit, and the function of criticism

The lesson of Baudelaire

Andrew Marvell

Prose and verse

London letter, May 1921

John Dryden

London letter, July 1921

London letter, September 1921

The metaphysical poets

Notes to Eliot's contemporary prose.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-281-72269-3

9786611722692

0-300-13356-1