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The Waste Land - A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (Hardcover)
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The Waste Land - A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (Hardcover)
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When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its
Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste
Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century
literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been
believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's
friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the
discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even
more so: the published version of The Waste Land was considerably
shorter than the original. The manuscript pages illuminate how the
famously elliptical poem was reduced and edited through the
handwritten notes of Ezra Pound; of Eliot's first wife, Vivien; and
of Eliot himself. So that this material could be made widely
available, the poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, prepared the facsimile
edition for publication in 1971, reproducing each page of the
original manuscript with a clear transcript, an enlightening
introduction, and explanatory notes. In celebration of the
centenary of the poem, published in the United States by Boni &
Liveright in 1922, Eliot's manuscript pages are presented in vivid
color for the first time. The updated facsimile edition also offers
a new appendix-including a sheet of Valerie Eliot's corrections
discovered in the Faber archive in 2021-and an insightful afterword
from Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis. Complete with the text of
the first published version of The Waste Land, this definitive
volume reveals the evolution of a landmark work of the twentieth
century and its enduring legacy.
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