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The Waste Land

Name: The Waste Land
Rating: 4.11 (58844 reviews)
Author: T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot December 1, 1922

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The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot’s most popular poem.

T.S. Elliot
was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.“In ten years’ time,” wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel’s Castle (1931), “Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English.” In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price “for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry.”

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