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** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **

A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.

A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph
A work of art' Times Literary Supplement

The Waste Land has been called the World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious.

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. Presentin

The Waste Land

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 20 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9780571297214
      978-0571297214
      ISBN-10 0571297218
      Also in:
      Biography: writers ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **

      A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.

      A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph
      A work of art' Times Literary Supplement

      The Waste Land       has been called the World's Greatest Poem'. It is said to describe the moral decay of a world after war, to find meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious.

      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. Presentin

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