{"product_id":"the-waste-land-paperback","title":"The Waste Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eT. S. Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMint Editions\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e (1922) is a poem by T.S. Eliot. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Eliot took a leave of absence from his job at a London bank to stay with his wife Vivienne at the coastal town of Margate. He worked on the poem during these months before showing an early draft to Ezra Pound, who helped edit the poem toward publication. \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e, dedicated to Pound, includes hundreds of quotations of and allusions to such figures as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Saint Augustine, Chaucer, Baudelaire, and Whitman, to name only a few.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivided into five sections--\"The Burial of the Dead;\" \"A Game of Chess;\" \"The Fire Sermon;\" \"Death by Water;\" and \"What the Thunder Said\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a complex poem that translates Eliot's fragile emotional state and increasing dissatisfaction with married life into an apocalyptic vision of postwar England. The poem begins with a meditation on despair before moving to a polyphonic narration by figures on the theme. The third section focuses on death and denial through the lens of eastern and western religions, using Saint Augustine as a prominent figure. Eliot then moves from a brief lyric poem to an apocalyptic conclusion, declaring: \"He who was living is now dead \/ We who were living are now dying \/ With a little patience.\" Both personal and universal, global in scope and intensely insular, \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e changed the course of literary history, inspiring countless poets and establishing Eliot's reputation as one of the foremost artists of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of T.S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"April is the cruellest month.\" This observation, echoing Chaucer, opens the most important poem of the twentieth century. As often imitated as it has been parodied, T.S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e introduced a new poetry to the world. Fragmented, polyphonic, multilingual, and mythical in scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting vision of postwar Britain and a powerful excavation of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 22\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.05 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692512940095,"sku":"9781513279671","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1934a82768514b40e12f6e7f277e9d69.webp?v=1764995723","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-waste-land-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}