![]() Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the seams of the work. ![]() Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism, and illuminating new research, he reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists-of Ezra Pound, who edited it of Vivien Eliot, who sustained it and of T. In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the intellectual creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. Eliot’s enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. ![]() A century after its publication in 1922, T. ![]() It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time it has been branded a masterful fake. Renowned as one of the world’s greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. ![]()
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