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100			_aEliot, T. S.
245			_aWaste land
260			_aBallingslov: _bWisehouse Classics, _c2016.
300			_a31p.; _bpbk; _c23cm.
504			_aIncludes index and references
520			_aThe Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It 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’s poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society. Eliot employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads. Because of this, critics and scholars regard the poem as obscure. The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures. http://www.wisehouse-publishing.com/project/the-waste-land-wisehouse-classics-original-authoritative-edition/
650			_aEnglish poetry
650			_aPoetry
650			_aManuscripts--English
650			_aProse poems--English
650			_aEliot, T. S., 1888-1965
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