The Waste Land and Other Poems - Couverture souple

Eliot, T. S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014243731X ISBN 13 : 9780142437315

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, “The Waste Land" is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. This edition includes “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Gerontion," and more.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet.

Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeare’s Language.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 014243731X
• ISBN 13: 9780142437315
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Kermode Frank
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible