false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168482019m/34080.jpg 34080 20 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 <I>The Waste Land</I>as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes at the end. <b>Contexts</b> provides readers with invaluable materials on <I>The Waste Land</I>'s sources, composition, and publication history. <b>Criticism</b> traces the poem's reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormählen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, Christine Froula, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. <P><B>About the Series</B>: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the <B>Norton Critical Editions</B>. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehenive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. 319721 book 1922 The Waste Land (Critical Edition) total:3037|5:1401|4:950|3:505|2:133|1:48| 3037 12634 3709 114 5 15 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974 Fri Dec 05 05:18:35 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 01 06:26:06 -0700 2009 20
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...more...]]> 5 9 false false Fri Apr 24 18:51:55 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 19:09:33 -0700 2009
Here's my thing about T.S. Eliot: the man is ungodly brilliant and I love almost everything he's...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Feb 16 17:05:06 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 17:05:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 07 14:50:22 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 20 19:06:13 -0700 2008 Four Quartets, which is much more w...more...]]> 1 3 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Sep 18 14:32:17 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 14:06:52 -0700 2009 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 it's status and importance. Sort of like my attitude to atomic weapons. You wouldn't dismiss atomic weapons as 'crap', b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:34:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:42:55 -0700 2009
Yes, of course I am as clueless as to the vast, sweeping genius that is T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land as everyone else. But that doesn't deter me. I love this poem, I'm surprised to say, because of the unfathomable depth of a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Sep 04 07:45:39 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 23 07:51:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 10:13:21 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 10:20:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 05:49:05 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 05:49:05 -0700 2009
I must say though, when Eliot praises Strachey and Woolf in "London Letter, July 1921" he essentially describes what I foun...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 07 19:44:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 19:49:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 16:02:14 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 01:16:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 00:21:25 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 01:38:51 -0800 2009
The sheer volume of source material Norton provides makes it well worth its ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun May 17 18:51:07 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 08:29:35 -0700 2009 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...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 06 12:04:29 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 12:04:29 -0700 2008 The bleak hou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 13:24:33 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:28:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Aug 28 12:59:50 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 13:10:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 19 20:10:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 21:42:15 -0800 2009 It is rich with imagery. A bit confusing perhaps but no doubt it is a masterpiece and a breakthrough at its age. ]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 18 08:34:22 -0800 2008 Sat May 02 12:04:19 -0700 2009 The poem is so applicable to our world that is a wasteland due to the deterioration of morals and religion! Water water everywhere..but man's thirsty! Destruction is because of the warring countries...modern materialistic world, and also bec...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Sep 23 19:43:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 19:48:19 -0700 2009 Four Quartets more, but I'm not much of an Eliot fan on the whole.

Oh, and an annotated version can be read here:

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