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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
November 17, 2014
Pages
28
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781503251991
ISBN-10
1503251993
Dimensions
0.07 by 7 by 10 in.
Original list price
$7.91
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âone of the most important poems of the 20th century.â The Waste Land By T. S. Eliot "The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih". Eliot probably worked on the text that became The Waste Land for several years preceding its first publication in 1922. In a letter to New York lawyer and patron of modernism John Quinn dated 9 May 1921, Eliot wrote that he had "a long poem in mind and partly on paper which I am wishful to finish". Richard Aldington, in his memoirs, relates that "a year or so" before Eliot read him the manuscript draft of The Waste Land in London, Eliot visited him in the country. While walking through a graveyard, they discussed Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Aldington writes: "I was surprised to find that Eliot admired something so popular, and then went on to say that if a contemporary poet, conscious of his limitations as Gray evidently was, would concentrate all his gifts on one such poem he might achieve a similar success." Eliot, having been diagnosed with some form of nervous disorder, had been recommended rest, and applied for three months' leave from the bank where he was employed; the reason stated on his staff card was "nervous breakdown". He and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, travelled to the coastal resort of Margate for a period of convalescence. While there, Eliot worked on the poem, and possibly showed an early version to Ezra Pound when, after a brief return to London, the Eliots travelled to Paris in November 1921 and stayed with him. Eliot was en route to Lausanne, Switzerland, for treatment by Doctor Roger Vittoz, who had been recommended to him by Ottoline Morrell; Vivienne was to stay at a sanatorium just outside Paris. In Lausanne, Eliot produced a 19-page version of the poem. He returned from Lausanne in early January 1922. Pound then made detailed editorial comments and significant cuts to the manuscript. Eliot would later dedicate the poem to Pound.
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from Createspace Independent Pub (March 18, 2016); titled "The Waste Land"
9781530518944 | details & prices | 30 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.08 in. | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (June 10, 2015); titled "The Waste Land"
9781514310427 | details & prices | 24 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.06 in. | List price $5.38
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 6, 2015); titled "The Waste Land"
9781512079418 | details & prices | 26 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.06 in. | List price $6.99
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from Createspace Independent Pub (November 17, 2014); titled "The Waste Land"
9781503251991 | details & prices | 28 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 0.07 in. | List price $7.91
About: âone of the most important poems of the 20th century.
About: âone of the most important poems of the 20th century.
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 7, 2014); titled "The Waste Land"
9781501026881 | details & prices | 36 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.09 in. | List price $5.99
from Createspace Independent Pub (May 1, 2014); titled "The Waste Land"
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from Createspace Independent Pub (March 15, 2014); titled "The Waste Land"
9781497354920 | details & prices | 52 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.13 in. | List price $8.00
from Createspace Independent Pub (September 6, 2013); titled "The Waste Land"
9781492344537 | details & prices | 26 pages | 8.00 × 10.00 × 0.06 in. | List price $7.95
from Createspace Independent Pub (April 4, 2013); titled "The Waste Land"
9781484033302 | details & prices | 24 pages | List price $6.99
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75 anv edition from Harcourt (March 1, 1997); titled "The Waste Land"
9780156005340 | details & prices | 47 pages | 4.50 × 7.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.15 lbs | List price $4.00
About: The classic modern poem is followed by an afterword setting it in the context of seventy-five years
About: The classic modern poem is followed by an afterword setting it in the context of seventy-five years
from Gardners Books (June 9, 1980); titled "The Waste Land"
9780571115037 | details & prices | 192 pages | List price $32.90
from Barrons Educational Series Inc (June 1, 1969)
9780812003802 | details & prices | List price $2.95
from Createspace Independent Pub (June 1, 1922); titled "The Waste Land"
9781500216481 | details & prices | 24 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.06 in. | List price $13.99
CD/Spoken Word
from Gardners Books (March 5, 2015); titled "The Waste Land"
9780571269327 | details & prices | List price $25.85
Reinforced
75 anv edition from Demco Media (March 1, 1997); titled "The Waste Land"
9780606138895 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $10.80
About: The classic modern poem is followed by an afterword setting it in the context of seventy-five years
About: The classic modern poem is followed by an afterword setting it in the context of seventy-five years
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