T S Eliot

The Waste Land

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Waste Land is perhaps, the finest poem of this generation; ...it gives voice to the universal despair or resignation arising from the spiritual and economic consequences of the war, the cross purposes of modern civilization, the cul-de-sac into which both science and philosophy seem to have got themselves and the break-down of all great directive purposes which give zest and joy to the business of living." -Burton Rascoe, New York Tribune (1922) The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. In The Waste Land, Eliot combines the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King with sketches of contemporary British society. This 434-line poem is divided into five sections: "The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon," "Death by Water," and "What the Thunder Said."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo
• Seitenzahl: 62
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 138mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 78g
• ISBN-13: 9781646792931
• ISBN-10: 1646792939
• Artikelnr.: 64363102

Autorenporträt

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965), banker, lecturer, poet, playwright, and editor, a graduate of Harvard, a student at the Sorbonne and at Oxford, was considered one of the 20th century's major poets. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to England in 1914, where he became a British citizen in 1927.