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The Waste Land

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The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers w...more

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Published December 1st 2000 by W.W. Norton & Company (first published 1922)

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Sep 01, 2009 Manny rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: strongly-recommended, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, why-not-call-it-poetry

You know, one of the greatest poems of the 20th century and that kind of thing. I must know a fair amount of it by heart.

Here's a story about "The Waste Land" that some people may find amusing. Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate in Cambridge, a friend of mine asked me for advice on how to impress female Eng Lit majors. Well, I said, you could do worse than use The Waste Land. Just memorise a few lines, and you'll probably be able to bluff successfully.

We did some rehearsals, and eventu...more

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Apr 24, 2009 Madeline rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry, assigned-reading

I'm trying to write a term paper on this poem (key word is "trying") and then I realized, hey, I should waste some time by writing a review of the poem on Goodreads! So here we are.

Here's my thing about T.S. Eliot: the man is ungodly brilliant and I love almost everything he's written. Does this mean I understand a single goddamn word of it? Of course not. But (and this is the great part) that doesn't matter. Eliot has been quoted as saying he's perfectly aware that no one has any idea what his...more

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Sep 22, 2009 Hannah Eiseman-Renyard rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 20th-century-classics, avoid-this, had-to-read-it-for-work-or-a-class, i-don-t-get-it, nearly-didn-t-finish-it, poetry

This Pisses Me Off and Makes Me Feel Like a Moron

I've had to read this twice in the course of my education, and I don't like it one bit, though I thoroughly appreciate its status and importance. Sort of like my attitude to atomic weapons. You wouldn't dismiss atomic weapons as 'crap', but you could legitimately say 'I appreciate their significance but I don't like them at all.'

I don't think there has ever been more literary masturbation about any other piece of literature than The Wasteland, an...more

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Feb 16, 2008 Steph rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry, canon

i think this might make me an anti-intellectual, but i enjoyed this poem so much more when i read this outside of the classroom and infused it with my own tenuous understanding of what was going on in the poem. in class, explicating every single obscure reference effectively killed it. still such a powerful opening though. his poems have lines you want to taste in your mouth, and repeat over and over like magical intonations, or write down covertly in a secret book of quotes.

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Sep 19, 2012 Ken Moten rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Ken by: Ralph Ellison (i.e. "Shadow and Act")

Shelves: poetry-stuff, favorites, 20th-century-modernist-stuff, favorite-reviews-i-wrote

One of my early Goodreads reviews was of the anthology of Eliot The Waste Land and Other Writings were I reviewed the structure of the book more than I did any of the poems. I've have looked back since writing it and am unsatisfied. This is one of my favorite poems, if not my favorite and it deserves better, so I will review it by itself.

Now this is a *cue sudden dramatic music* modernist work. It was released in THE year for literature 1922 (Ulysses anyone). I think it would be wrong and prete...more One of my early Goodreads reviews was of the anthology of Eliot The Waste Land and Other Writings were I reviewed the structure of the book more than I did any of the poems. I've have looked back since writing it and am unsatisfied. This is one of my favorite poems, if not my favorite and it deserves better, so I will review it by itself.

Now this is a *cue sudden dramatic music* modernist work. It was released in THE year for literature 1922 (Ulysses anyone). I think it would be wrong and pretentious to go around saying you're just complaining because your a lazy reader. But I think all through Eliot's and his contemporaries careers they were sort of making the point that society as a whole had lost something in there understanding and appreciation of literature. So this wide assortment of writers decided they would employ some "tough love" to counter this trend. When I read Eliot, Joyce, Faulkner, some Ezra Pound, and others I really enjoyed the whole "breaking the rules aspect of their work and I got a blast out of reading and deciphering their works. So now I am going to the land of the Dead and try to talk quickly about two parts of this poem now:

The Burial of the Dead is the first, most famous, and for some the only read section of this poem. The first line alone: "April is the cruelest month" has become legend (on a smaller note my b-day and my father's d-day happen to be the same month [and year] so I had a dark chuckle at this line). So the stanza goes on into a story which you have no idea what is happening (and you don't need in idea) because it is the rhythm of the poem that is key, and it is only when you realize that you should be (maybe) reading this aloud that it makes sense. Now for the next two stanzas it is more of the same something is happening with some people and as soon as it looks like coherent story is taking place-NEW STORY. All the while rhythm wise nothing has changed, even the non-english lines keep the same pattern and rhythmic verse as the english.

Then the whole tempo changes when you get to 'Unreal City": Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet,
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying, "Stetson!
You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable!--mon frère!"
Now we are in a apocalyptic/dystopian setting (complete with Dante quotes) and we see the narrator recognizing someone in "underworld London" and acquiring about both a corpse and gardening (a theme that is alive all through this poem) and more non-english and it is section 2. Like all of this poem nearly every line could be an allusion to some obscure piece of literature that Eliot knows most of his readers won't get (jokes on him now, we have 'internets').

Now I also want to comment on the first stanza of section 3 The Fire Sermon which gets its name from the Buddha's Fire Sermon. In it the narrator's observation of the Thames river and the people who had just left it ('nymphs') and the trash they left behind. It is done in such a personal and profound way and really sets up the narrative following it well.

I could go on dissecting this thing but I can better advise you to read it and try to get lost in it all. If you want go back and uncoded it all but don't get frustrated because in the end this poem was written for us (the reader/audience's) pleasure.(less)

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Jun 29, 2011 Emily O rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: poetry lovers, English majors

Recommended to Emily by: ENG 252 (American Lit Post-1800s)

Shelves: poetry-and-plays, american-lit, college, anthologies-and-collections

What can one say about The Waste Land that hasn't already been said? It's disjointed, difficult, long, and brilliant. Parts of it are confusing and grotesque (I'm looking at you, carbuncular young man) while other parts are strikingly painfully beautiful. It is laden with symbolism and references to everything under the sun. The only interpretation people can agree on is that something is terribly broken, though no-one can seem to agree on exactly what that thing is. If you like poetry, and are...more What can one say about The Waste Land that hasn't already been said? It's disjointed, difficult, long, and brilliant. Parts of it are confusing and grotesque (I'm looking at you, carbuncular young man) while other parts are strikingly painfully beautiful. It is laden with symbolism and references to everything under the sun. The only interpretation people can agree on is that something is terribly broken, though no-one can seem to agree on exactly what that thing is. If you like poetry, and are up for a challenge, I can definitely recommend The Waste Land. I promise, the only greater satisfaction than being able to brag to other people that you've read The Waste Land is the satisfaction that comes from reading it. It really is quite beautiful and immensely satisfying.

If you aren't as lucky as I am, and you don't get to read this in a classroom setting with people to help you sort through all of the rich symbolism and literary references, then I highly suggest you read the Norton Critical Edition or some other similar edition. What I like about this edition is all the extra stuff in the back. It has excerpts from every work that Eliot quotes or refers to, which is very helpful if you're like me and haven't actually read The Inferno or don't know of the top of your head who Philomela is. It even has a copy of the sheet music for the Shakespearean Rag. Now that is just cool. It also contains lots of critical essays written by other people about The Waste Land. Each has a slightly different interpretation, so reading them can really help you see the poem from lots of different angles and decide for yourself what interpretation makes the most sense.

I suggest that everyone at least tries to read The Waste Land at least once in their lives, if only so you can say that you have. It's really quite an experience. If you are as scared of this poem as I was and you don't have a class to help with the interpretation, then I suggest getting The Norton Critical Edition, or some similar edition, to help you through it. But no matter what edition you can get your hands on, just read it. Spend some time with it. Don't let the intimidation keep you from enjoying the language. I promise you won't regret it.(less)

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Jan 24, 2012 Chiara Pagliochini rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classici-inglesi, poesia

“Ho i nervi a pezzi stasera. Sì, a pezzi. Resta con me.
Parlami. Perché non parli mai? Parla.
A che stai pensando? Pensando a cosa? A cosa?
Non lo so mai a cosa stai pensando. Pensa.”

Penso che siamo nel vicolo dei topi
Dove i morti hanno perso le ossa.

Mi sento sola stasera. Le lacrime premono sulla punta degli occhi. E c’è un piccolo nodo di nausea là in fondo, che non si vuol sfogare in nessun modo. Forse è la stanchezza, è tutto il giorno che sto sui libri con questo piccolo entusiasmo frenetico...more

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Sep 23, 2009 Joshua Nomen-Mutatio rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry, from-ages-past

I read this a decade ago. It didn't do much for me. I think I enjoyed Four Quartets more, but I'm not much of an Eliot fan on the whole.

Oh, and an annotated version can be read here:

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

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May 09, 2010 Venus added it · review of another edition

Shelves: poem

ما آدمهای پوکیم،آدمهای پوشالی خمیده بر هم.افسوس صدای خشکمان وقتی نجوا میکنیم با هم آرام و بی معنی است

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Mar 23, 2012 shanties rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 20th-century, anglo-america, library, modernism, poetry

T.S. Eliot legge The Waste Land: http://bit.ly/9MCUQ5
Testo: http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

I frammenti con cui Eliot ha puntellato le proprie rovine provengono dalla letteratura europea, classica medioevale e moderna. Brandelli orfani e dispersi in quella Babele che a prima vista è il poema: una mezza dozzina di lingue, antiche e moderne. Il poema speaks in tongues.
Molte sezioni sono alla prima persona singolare, ma a dire “io” è una voce sempre diversa, e questo può trarre in inganno. Un’...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Charmaine Vannimwegen rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've read The Waste Land a few times over the course of my education. I would love to state that I have a profound understanding of it after so many reads, but I don't. I can say that until this last reading I had relegated the work to brilliant but not anywhere near my taste of literature category. It's funny how one idea, one line, can change your view of a larger piece. What's even more intriguing is that it isn't the line or the idea that is new but you. The you who is reading right now is d...more

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Aug 21, 2009 Jason Gignac rated it 3 of 5 stars

Original Review

To be perfectly honest, I really expected not to like this poem. I was really kind of expecting to hate it, in fact. I've read a little bit of Ezra Pound, a jillion years ago, didn't like it, and I guess just figured this would be the same. Here's the thing - I didn't hate it. And I don't know why. It was obtuse, it made no sense at times, it deliberately obscured itself, it had all the things I hate in modern poetry.

Except for one little, tiny thing: It wasn't talking to itself,...more

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Apr 20, 2008 John Wiswell rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Poetry readers who've read everything else

Random, eclectic, failing to achieve emotional rhythm, largely hopeless, uninteresting, unappealing - this, which I'm told is a classic, strikes me as the kind of tripe I'd hear at a 10:00 at night in a bad coffee house. It's a crushing letdown after the ponderous Four Quartets, which is much more worth your time. That poem (or four poems) by this same poet contains all the meaning of this obnoxious thing, and wraps them up in a far greater scheme of humanity's relationship to time. The heart of...more

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Oct 21, 2008 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: poetry

I read this about 30 years ago, but have since revisted it because of my son's school project on Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." For an Eliot fan, it's a must-have. Like most here, I agree with Pound's edits. Still, I've always liked the first major "cut" from the poem: "He Do the Police in Different Voices, Part I." But more importantly, I've always wanted to know the backstory behind Eliot's interest in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." I'm fascinated by the fact that Eliot originally intended to ha...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I surprised myself by liking this. Sure, Eliot is elitist and supercultured [french italian latin german, quoting many works by other authors] and I understand that someone cought is just a little obsessed so that perhaps influenced my own opinion but I liked it!
The language, the style, is poetic prose in poetry - that makes no sense - hey but neither did this poem without footnotes and reading other sources - but the language flowed. and I liked how it was a mix of different works combined with...more

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Jul 29, 2012 Simon added it

I first read this poem when I was about 16 and I loved it. But as I've gotten older, and occasionally re-read all or parts of it, I've come to feel it is, exactly, the kind of thing a 16 year old child would think is fantastic: pretentious, melodramatic, and too concerned to wear its learning on its sleeve. Now, when I read or think about it, I just get embarrassed. (You might infer from this that I don't have much sympathy for my younger self. You'd be right.)

Recently (2012), I was talking abou...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Finn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Unreal City, 60
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. 65
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying “Stetson!
You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! 70
That corpse you planted l...more

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Mar 27, 2012 Surabhi rated it 3 of 5 stars

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot's own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves. For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes at the end. Contexts provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land 's sources, composition, and publication history. Criticism traces the poem's recep...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Mariah rated it 5 of 5 stars

Eliot's ''The Waste Land'' represents his concept of tradition and impersonality in poetry, in which the use of allusions and quotations in the poem enables it to achieve its Modernist impersonality.
Modernist writing uses myths as a structuring technique to replace the connected sequence of narrative.

The poem is written in free verse which is one feature of Modernist poetry along with its dense of allusions and fragmentary images. The structure of the poem suggests a shadowy narrative in the fo...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Ruby rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm doing a line by line close reading of The Wasteland, because I have the utter gall and audacity to think that I may do some kind of review here. I don't know what that will look like, yet -- but I reckon if I make this note, some of the goodreaders might actually hold me to it.
I'm through sections I and II. I love this edition, which has copious annotations including Eliot's own, an excellent introduction that discusses some of the more important and interesting text changes over the early...more

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Apr 17, 2011 Maggie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Duh. Five stars, of course. I'm not a huge poetry buff. In fact, I don't really like poetry. Why? Because most of the time I have no idea what the poet is talking about. There are so many mythological and biblical allusions, etc., that there's no way to understand all of it. Unless, of course, you've read everything that's ever been written and devoted your life to studying poetry.

But, this poem is one of my favorites, and even though I don't understand every allusion, the important thing is tha...more

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Mar 20, 2011 Ashley Logan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2011

I really enjoyed this poem and the footnotes that went along with it. It was very engaging, knowledge filled, and a good read. It was easier to read than I thought it would be because many of these poems can be hard to decipher. It encompassed Christianity, mythology, and other ideas all in the same respect and I really liked that. I thought it connected the dots very well.
The introduction explained very well how it is about spiritual dryness and references to Sir James Frazer's "Golden Bough"...more I really enjoyed this poem and the footnotes that went along with it. It was very engaging, knowledge filled, and a good read. It was easier to read than I thought it would be because many of these poems can be hard to decipher. It encompassed Christianity, mythology, and other ideas all in the same respect and I really liked that. I thought it connected the dots very well.
The introduction explained very well how it is about spiritual dryness and references to Sir James Frazer's "Golden Bough" in which Frazer deals with ancient vegetation myths and fertility ceremonies, which along with other writers, such as Miss Jessie L. Weston, and other anthropologists have traced the relationship of these myths and rituals to Christianity and most especially to the legend of the Holy Grail. Another significant general source for the poem is composer Richard Wagner with some of his operas such as "Twilight of the Gods" and "Tristan and Isolde". The Fisher King story is also drawn upon and referenced which deals with "(his) death, infirmity, or impotence (there are many forms of the myth) which brought drought and desolation to the land and failure of the power to reproduce themselves among both humans and beasts. This could only be brought to an end by a "questioning knight" going to the Chapel Perilous and asking certain ritual questions about the Grail (or cup) and the Lance-originally fertility symbols, female and male, respectively. The proper asking of these questions revives the king and restores fertility to the land." The poem is dedicated to Ezra Pound in which the poem's publishing owed a great deal to the severe pruning of Ezra Pound. The intro explains that the original manuscript, with Pound's excisions and comments, provided fascinating information about the genesis and development of the poem. It was reproduced in facsimile in 1971 and edited by Eliot's widow, Valerie Eliot, who also supplied notes supplementing those that Eliot himself added when the poem was first published in book form in 1925 and that are included with the present editors' footnotes to the poem.
All in all a great and interesting read and a good source of knowledge in all things mythological and literary. (less)

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Jan 10, 2012 A.M. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-challenge-list, poetry

This is a poem that grew on me after a few readings, for I not only had to re-read the entire poem but also research stanzas as I went along. Unless the reader is highly erudite and versed in multiple languages, I strongly recommend having the patience to look up translations and references - it makes the poem much richer.

So, what is my personal takeaway of The Waste Land? On some level, I believe Eliot saw the role of a poet as also one of a prophet, and The Waste Land is his epic poem of the s...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Jacob rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: commentaries-and-criticism, modernism, poetry

This edition (the 2001 Norton Critical Edition) should really be listed separately from the others (as should the 1971 facsimile edition of Eliot's drafts and Pound's notations). This is nearly a completely different book, in which only the first 26 pages account for the poem itself. The remaining 288 pages include selections from the sources (i.e., everyone from St. Augustine to Aldous Huxley) which Eliot adapted and quoted, and to which he alluded, in his masterpiece; some writings by Eliot an...more This edition (the 2001 Norton Critical Edition) should really be listed separately from the others (as should the 1971 facsimile edition of Eliot's drafts and Pound's notations). This is nearly a completely different book, in which only the first 26 pages account for the poem itself. The remaining 288 pages include selections from the sources (i.e., everyone from St. Augustine to Aldous Huxley) which Eliot adapted and quoted, and to which he alluded, in his masterpiece; some writings by Eliot and others about the composition of The Waste Land; and a selection of criticism of the poem from the past 90 years.

This selected criticism is something of a mixed bag. Some of the more recent critics emphasize ways of finding meaning (or lack of meaning) in the poem's form (or lack of form). That's interesting, but it's low-hanging fruit; it's the sort of tie-it-up-and-put-a-bow-on-it modernist interpretation that your freshman English teacher can deliver to you in one or two class sessions. Earlier critics (particularly the partisans of New Criticism, oddly enough, including John Crowe Ransom, F. R. Leavis, and Cleanth Brooks) are more interested in finding what meaning can be found, sifting through the fragmented text and figuring out how it functions. This is tougher work than saying "It's tough work to understand The Waste Land" and discussing what that means for our conception of The Waste Land. (Not that the New Critics would much care, but this tougher way is probably how Eliot wanted his poem to be read, even if it's not how Pound wanted Eliot's poem to be read.) They make a good effort, and their criticism is worth reading. They don't completely demystify it, but (to paraphrase the editor of this edition, in his preface) they begin to make clear what is supposed to be mystifying and what isn't (in other words, they explain the difference between what I don't know because I'm a beginner, and what nobody knows).

All that aside, how much do you have to understand The Waste Land in order to enjoy it? Probably less than most people think. Be done with the notion that you must (or can) understand it all, and just experience the beautiful delicacy and brittleness of its forms, the chiaroscuro of vulgarity set off against elegance, and the power of Eliot's own clear voice breaking through chaos here and there (the opening seven lines, for instance; or Eliot's own favorites, lines 331 to 359: "Here is no water but only rock"). The poet's shored-up fragments are beautiful (if broken) images that are for the most part instantly accessible and, I submit, are the equal of anything in literature in their power, their concentration, their haunting memorability.

And if you still hate The Waste Land. . . keep in mind that the best literature will more often improve its readers than it will entertain them, and that in this respect The Waste Land is very, very good literature indeed.(less)

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Apr 27, 2013 Phyllis rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry, book-club

There are some incredible passages in "The Waste Land" that make it a poem everyone should read. The first few lines beginning with "April is the cruelest month..." (which is one reason the book club chose it for April's book) and on to the excellently rendered Game of Chess (section 2) throw off fantastic images juxtaposed with dead-on conversation snippits that pop up in your mind after you've put the text down.

Our group had an interesting discussion about references to other works we've read...more

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Jan 03, 2012 Cheryl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry

Reading THE WASTE LAND by T.S. Eliot is like sitting in a French cafe without the benefit of the language. Among the characteristics of the French is the allusion to their nihilism, yet they are said to be great lovers of language, art and diverse culture.

You sit under an awning, sipping cafe au lait, listening to the beauty of feelings expressed by higher or lower intonations. Without understanding any of the words, you have absorbed the wonder of related expressions of being human.

An experien...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Sarah Coughlon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: poetry, 2012

I fell in love with The Waste Land in tenth grade due to the machinations of an obsessed poetry teacher. I still don't fully grasp it—I probably never will—but I've spent hours of my life poring over it, and I'm always overwhelmed by the amount of thought and feeling lying underneath that text. What makes this edition so mind-blowingly cool is that it exposes the work that went into creating The Waste Land as we have all experienced it.

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot had a rad bromance, and it's reall...more

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Nov 03, 2012 Hafeth added it · review of another edition

Shelves: أدب-عالمي-مترجم, شعر

أقرأ ترجمة الكتاب للمترجم د. نبيل راغب, منشورات الهيئة المصرية العامة للكتاب
مقدمة المترجم قيمة, تقع في خمسين صفحة

أنتهيت من القصيدة و تعليقات المترجم عليها. ﻻ شك بأنها قصيدة مهمه و فيصلية في تاريخ الشعر اﻹنجليزي و العالمي, لكنني لﻷسف لم أفهمها فهما كافيا, فهي بحاجة إلى إعادة قراءة. لذلك أترك التقييم إلى وقت ﻻحق بعد إعادة قراءتها باللغة اﻹنجليزية

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Mar 23, 2009 Jane rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: poetry

This is possibly too much information but when I was in labor 25 years ago, I listened to a record of TS Eliot reading this. i'd wander in and out of listening to hear profound phrases that spoke to me in my current situation. I can still hear his droning voice saying "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me." and "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME"

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Aug 04, 2007 Lorraine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: essentialformymentalhealth

GEE. Why the hell are the comments for Eliot's Prufrock listed here? I'm sure that's because of some classification thing, because when I click on Eliot's Selected Poems I see the same reviews. What's wrong with this thing? I have this particular book and it's ONLY The Wasteland so this stupid website is deluded.

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Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individ...more

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

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“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.” — 448 people liked it

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” — 108 people liked it

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