The Waste Land and Other Writings

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First published in 1922, ?he Waste Land,?T. S. Eliot? masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot? poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot ?rticulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.?As commanding as his verse, Eliot? criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliot? most important essays.