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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"Provide[s] valuable context for Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece."
---Michael Dirda, Washington Post"Stimulating. . . . Rasula's account wonderfully traces the evolution of literary thought, and his syntheses feel fresh and exciting. The result is a refreshing reappraisal of a classic." * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
"[
What the Thunder Said is] adding more weight to the headstone that marks Eliot."
---James Matthew Wilson, New Criterion"The book demonstrates [Rasula’s] uncommon ability to compress highly complicated artistic, cultural, and intellectual histories into accessible and enjoyable prose."
---Daniel Kraft, On the Seawall"Filled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes,
What the Thunder Said recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century’s most influential poem."
---Marshal Zeringue, Campaign for the American Reader"Rasula makes the case for
The Waste Land‘s lasting revolutionary impact in his engaging and insightful, if occasionally discursive, study."
---Peter Keough, Arts Fuse"The book is much more than its title suggests, sympathetically conveying a whole complex literary world marked by revolutionary intensity." * Paradigm Explorer *
"[
What the Thunder Said] confirms Rasula's position as the US's most wide-ranging and aculturally astute historian of modernism." * Choice *
"
What the Thunder Said is an energetic book bristling with ideas and arguments."
---Jason Harding, American Literary History
