The Waste Land and Other WritingsRandom House Publishing Group, 2009 M07 29 - 272 pages First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. |
Contents
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Mr Apollinax | 18 |
Bleistein with a Cigar | 25 |
The Hippopotamus | 31 |
The Waste Land | 38 |
Introduction | 59 |
Imperfect Critics | 76 |
Tradition and the Individual Talent | 99 |
Some Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe | 129 |
Hamlet and His Problems | 137 |
Ben Jonson | 144 |
Philip Massinger | 158 |
Swinburne as Poet | 174 |
Blake | 180 |
Dante | 186 |
Andrew Marvell | 197 |
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama | 109 |
Euripides and Professor Murray | 117 |
Rhetoric and Poetic Drama | 123 |
John Dryden | 212 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 224 |
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