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The Waste Land and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition

T. S. Eliot

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot's notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Poems (1917) and Poems (1920).

Updated and expanded introductory materials and footnotes by Michael North.

Extensive contextual materials on sources for The Waste Land, its composition, and publication history for all three featured collections. Eleven reviews and reactions to Eliot's works include those by Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison.

Five new critical essays examine the themes and legacy of Eliot's hallmark poems alongside eight classic literary critiques.

A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

"This splendid new edition of T. S. Eliot's landmark poem provides an authoritative 1922 edition of the text, the most vital materials for understanding it, and, for this supremely allusive poem, a collection of essential sources. It also brings together Eliot's most pertinent essays and all the English poems in his earlier books, as well as an illuminating array of reviews and criticism published over the last hundred years." -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia

Book Details

  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2022
  • Pages: 376
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.10in - 0.90in - 0.66lb
  • EAN: 9780393679434
  • Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshEuropean - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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About the Author

Eliot, T. S.: - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
North, Michael: - Michael North is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, The Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets, Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, and Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation, as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature.

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