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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 has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. More than a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written.

In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. He reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists Ezra Pound, who edited it; Viv

The Waste Land

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9780571297221
      978-0571297221
      ISBN-10 0571297226
      Also in:
      Biography 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 has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. More than a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written.

      In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. He reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists Ezra Pound, who edited it; Viv

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