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    The Waste Land and Other Poems

    Including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    Author T. S. Eliot
    Edited by Helen Vendler
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    On sale Feb 01, 1998 | 128 Pages | 9780451526847
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    A collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

    T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” included here, and most notable, the title poem, “The Waste Land,” his groundbreaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, “The Waste Land” has become one of the most widely studied modernist texts in English literature.

    Gathering together many of Eliot's major early poems, distinguished Harvard scholar and literary critic Helen Vendler presents an invaluable portrait of T. S. Eliot as a young poet and examines the artistry and craft that made him a Nobel laureate and one of the most significant voices in modern verse.
    T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet. View titles by T. S. Eliot
    Selected and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler

    Introduction by Helen Vendler
    Spleen
    The Death of Saint Narcissus
    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    Preludes
    The Boston Evening Transcript
    Hysteria
    La Figlia Che Piange
    Gerontion
    The Hippopotamus
    Whispers of Immortality
    Sweeney Among the Nightingales
    The Waste Land
    The Hollow Men
    Ash-Wednesday
    Journey of the Magi
    Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg (From Five-finger Exercises)

    Annotations
    Selected Bibliography

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    A collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

    T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” included here, and most notable, the title poem, “The Waste Land,” his groundbreaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, “The Waste Land” has become one of the most widely studied modernist texts in English literature.

    Gathering together many of Eliot's major early poems, distinguished Harvard scholar and literary critic Helen Vendler presents an invaluable portrait of T. S. Eliot as a young poet and examines the artistry and craft that made him a Nobel laureate and one of the most significant voices in modern verse.

    Author

    T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet. View titles by T. S. Eliot

    Table of Contents

    Selected and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler

    Introduction by Helen Vendler
    Spleen
    The Death of Saint Narcissus
    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    Preludes
    The Boston Evening Transcript
    Hysteria
    La Figlia Che Piange
    Gerontion
    The Hippopotamus
    Whispers of Immortality
    Sweeney Among the Nightingales
    The Waste Land
    The Hollow Men
    Ash-Wednesday
    Journey of the Magi
    Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg (From Five-finger Exercises)

    Annotations
    Selected Bibliography

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