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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 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.
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Claire
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“These poems made me feel extremely dumb 😅 I’m sure that if I took the time to study them out (maybe one day I will), I would get a lot from them. Overall though, the poems were very gloomy and depressing.”McKenna Munden
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“Some quotes I loved:
“Now you can understand the quantity of the love that warms me for you, when I forget our vanity, treating the shadows as a solid thing.”
“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”
I absolutely devoured the earlier of T.S Elliot’s poetry collected at the beginning of this book. It fell raw and relatable and I was annotating quite feverishly. But the later years felt a little too abstract for me, a lot harder to wrap my brain around so that most definitely brought my enjoyment (and rating) down. I would still recommend this collection, just for me - I only really connected with the beginning and the final poem in the book.”Erika Loschi
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sophie03
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“yeah yeah. a little dorky a little gloomy a little buzzed. yeah.”
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