false <![CDATA[The Waste Land and Other Writings]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168482020m/34082.jpg 34082 4 "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's 1922 masterpiece, & isn't only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the 20th century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of psycho-spiritual torment & redemption, his poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic & Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth wasn't alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare & Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, his criticism also exerted a transformative effect on 20th-century letters. This new edition of <i>The Waste Land & Other Writings</i> includes a selection of his most important essays. In her Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the poem's inaccessibility & sheds light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. 34093 1922 The Waste Land and Other Writings total:953|5:460|4:307|3:137|2:32|1:17| 953 4020 1149 55 4 1 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 03:30:08 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 09:04:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 06:23:17 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 06:32:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 07:42:44 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 08:28:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 14 15:23:33 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 14 11:24:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Feb 05 15:52:15 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 11:42:50 -0800 2009 What?
I have no idea what went on here. Even after reading Sparknotes in hopes that it would help me out I just didn't get the meaning and point behind this poem.
Perhaps, once it's explained to me then I will appreciate it. But, until then, I will go on thinking that it is a...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 14 14:55:21 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 14:57:31 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Tue Feb 24 22:51:06 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 22:53:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Wed Jul 18 16:16:18 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 16:17:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 22 15:56:40 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:57:23 -0800 2009 at least 20 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 07:21:17 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 23:18:26 -0700 2008 Poems and The Waste Land could have been very interesting if not for being chock-full of obscure references. I would not be opposed to exploring those references and understanding it better at anot...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 10 10:34:37 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 22:05:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 21 12:44:08 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 12:46:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 07:04:41 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 07:07:12 -0700 2008
Maybe that makes me a little crazy, but I love stuff like that. I get the distinct feeling I can b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 27 22:11:05 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 22:21:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 10:17:28 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 09:58:17 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Sun Feb 24 01:08:25 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 01:08:25 -0800 2008
About as good as poetry gets, in its best places and moments....

this is a wonderful collection, worth getting because of the inclusion of some of the essays which are deeply reasoned ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 24 14:34:56 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 14:36:35 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 13:05:20 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 13:08:13 -0800 2007
But I like old things (simplistic, I know) - and this old, so I'm going to find out what's here. I...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 08:55:09 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 08:58:17 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Wed Mar 28 09:47:20 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 29 09:38:04 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=34082