The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose - Softcover

Eliot, T. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300119941 ISBN 13: 9780300119947

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century

One of the twentieth century’s most powerful—and controversial—works, The Waste Land waspublished in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing The Waste Land,seven of them never before published in book form. The volume is enriched with period photographs and a London map of locations mentioned in the poem.
Featured in the book are Lawrence Rainey’s groundbreaking account of how The Waste Land cameto be composed; a history of the reactions of admirers and critics; and full annotations to the poem and Eliot’s essays. The edition transforms our understanding of one of the greatest modernist writers and the magnificent poem that became a landmark in literary history.

About this title

Book Description:

This book presents the new and definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history.

About the Author:

Lawrence Rainey is professor and chair in modernist literature, Department of English, University of York. He is the author of Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, published by Yale University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300119941
• ISBN 13: 9780300119947
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Rainey Lawrence