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    <![CDATA[&quot;The Waste Land&quot; is T.S. Eliot's 1922 masterpiece, &amp; 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 &amp; redemption, his poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic &amp; Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth wasn't alone in calling Eliot &quot;the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare &amp; Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.&quot; As influential as his verse, his criticism also exerted a transformative effect on 20th-century letters. This new edition of <em>The Waste Land &amp; Other Writings</em> includes a selection of his most important essays. In her Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the poem's inaccessibility &amp; sheds light on the ways in which &quot;The Waste Land&quot; illuminates contemporary experience.]]>
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