The waste land
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Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.
'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph
'A work of art' Times Literary Supplement
The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'.
** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **
A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.
'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph
'A work of art' Times Literary Supplement
The Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious.
In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists - of Ezra Pound, who edited it; of Vivien Eliot, who sustained it; and of T. S. Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the seams of the work. The result is an unforgettable story of lives passing in opposing directions and the astounding literary legacy they would leave behind.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 20 oktober 2022
Aantal pagina's: 544
Hoofdauteur: Matthew Hollis
Hoofduitgeverij: Faber & Faber
Editie: Main
Product breedte: 153 mm
Product hoogte: 39 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 163 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 48 mm
Verpakking lengte: 485 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 815 g
EAN: 9780571297214