About This Book

Librarian Note: Also available as anAlternate Cover Edition.“And I will show you something different from eitherYour shadow at morning striding behind youOr your shadow at evening rising to meet youI will show you fear in a handful of dust”WhenThe Waste Landwas published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. Critics attacked the poem's "kaleidoscopic" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. The poem was even rumored to a hoax. Eventually, though,The Waste Landwent on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century."In ten years' time,"wrote Edmund Wilson inAxel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English."In 1948,T.S. Eliotwas awarded the Nobel Price"for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."In addition to the title poem, this selection includes"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Geronition," "Ash-Wednesday,"andother poems from Eliot's early and middle work.Includes:- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- Preludes- Gerontion- Sweeney Among the Nightingales- The Waste Land:I. The Burial of the DeadII. A Game of ChessIII. The Fire SermonIV. Death by WaterV. What the Thunder SaidNotes on 'The Waste Land'- Ash-Wednesday-J ourney of the Magi- Marina- Landscapes:I. New HampshireII. VirginiaIII. USK- Two Choruses from 'The Rock'