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The Waste Land (Paperback)
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The Waste Land (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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List price R126
Loot Price R114
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The Waste Land (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. The Waste Land, 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. Divided into five sections-"The Burial
of the Dead;" "A Game of Chess;" "The Fire Sermon;" "Death by
Water;" and "What the Thunder Said"-The Waste Land 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, The Waste Land
changed the course of literary history, inspiring countless poets
and establishing Eliot's reputation as one of the foremost artists
of his generation. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of T.S. Eliot's The
Waste Land is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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