The Waste Land Facsimile Of 1922 First Edition

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780593313350

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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot Pdf

A collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” T. S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” included here, and most notable, the title poem, “The Waste Land,” his groundbreaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, “The Waste Land” has become one of the most widely studied modernist texts in English literature. Gathering together many of Eliot's major early poems, distinguished Harvard scholar and literary critic Helen Vendler presents an invaluable portrait of T. S. Eliot as a young poet and examines the artistry and craft that made him a Nobel laureate and one of the most significant voices in modern verse.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1614274312

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The Waste Land [Facsimile of 1922 First Edition] by T. S. Eliot Pdf

2013 Reprint of 1922 Edition. "The Waste Land" is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month," "I will show you fear in a handful of dust," and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "Shantih shantih shantih."

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486400617

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The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems by Thomas Stearns Eliot Pdf

A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more). Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473523203

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Young Eliot by Robert Crawford Pdf

Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century’s most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Waste Land. Meticulously detailed and incisively written, Young Eliot portrays a brilliant, shy and wounded American who defied his parents’ wishes and committed himself to life as an immigrant in England, authoring work astonishing in its scope and hurt. Quoting extensively from poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Robert Crawford shows how Eliot’s background in Missouri, Massachusetts and Paris made him a lightning conductor for modernity. Most impressively, Young Eliot shows how deeply personal were the experiences underlying masterpieces from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ to The Waste Land. T. S. Eliot wanted no biography written, but this book reveals him in all his vulnerable complexity as student and lover, stink-bomber, banker and philosopher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters.

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0156948702

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The Waste Land by Thomas Stearns Eliot Pdf

Biographical material accompanies reproductions of T.S. Eliot's original manuscript and notes.

Author : T.S. Eliot
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324093008

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The Waste Land Facsimile by T.S. Eliot Pdf

The first full-color facsimile of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, the most influential poem in modern literature, in celebration of its centennial. When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot’s friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so: the published version of The Waste Land was considerably shorter than the original. The manuscript pages illuminate how the famously elliptical poem was reduced and edited through the handwritten notes of Ezra Pound; of Eliot’s first wife, Vivien; and of Eliot himself. So that this material could be made widely available, the poet’s widow, Valerie Eliot, prepared the facsimile edition for publication in 1971, reproducing each page of the original manuscript with a clear transcript, an enlightening introduction, and explanatory notes. In celebration of the centenary of the poem, published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, Eliot’s manuscript pages are presented in vivid color for the first time. The updated facsimile edition also offers a new appendix—including a sheet of Valerie Eliot’s corrections discovered in the Faber archive in 2021—and an insightful afterword from Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis. Complete with the text of the first published version of The Waste Land, this definitive volume reveals the evolution of a landmark work of the twentieth century and its enduring legacy.

Author : Gareth Reeves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315504841

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T. S. Elliot's The Waste Land by Gareth Reeves Pdf

This work argues that although "The Waste Land" demands close reading, the spirit of the old New Criticism works with inappropriate assumptions about unity and closed form. Many critics have tried to fix the text, to find hidden narratives and plots, spiritual guests and allegories of salvation. Instead, this reading sees the poem as resolutely open-ended, supporting this view with recent developments in Reader-Response criticism and Reception Theory. The study focuses on the way poetry sounds (or does not sound, cannot be sounded). It concentrates on syntax, lineation and intonation. It also brings out the presence of the muted voices of wronged women in a work often called misogynistic.

Author : Grover Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000156294

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The Waste Land by Grover Smith Pdf

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes. He calls these a ‘music of allusions’ and shows the resemblance of this music in its evocativeness to the technique of Mallarmé and the French symbolists. Smith also comments extensively on Eliot’s critical theories as they bear on The Waste Land and traces the development of Eliot’s allusive and transformational poetic form from its genesis in early work. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324093015

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The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot Pdf

The first full-color facsimile of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, the most influential poem in modern literature, in celebration of its centennial. When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot’s friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so: the published version of The Waste Land was considerably shorter than the original. The manuscript pages illuminate how the famously elliptical poem was reduced and edited through the handwritten notes of Ezra Pound; of Eliot’s first wife, Vivien; and of Eliot himself. So that this material could be made widely available, the poet’s widow, Valerie Eliot, prepared the facsimile edition for publication in 1971, reproducing each page of the original manuscript with a clear transcript, an enlightening introduction, and explanatory notes. In celebration of the centenary of the poem, published in the United States by Boni & Liveright in 1922, Eliot’s manuscript pages are presented in vivid color for the first time. The updated facsimile edition also offers a new appendix—including a sheet of Valerie Eliot’s corrections discovered in the Faber archive in 2021—and an insightful afterword from Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis. Complete with the text of the first published version of The Waste Land, this definitive volume reveals the evolution of a landmark work of the twentieth century and its enduring legacy.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:955849652

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The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot Pdf

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Criterion (London, England : 1922)
ISBN : OCLC:903523284

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The Criterion by Thomas Stearns Eliot Pdf

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Faber & Faber Poetry
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571370853

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The Waste Land Facsimile by T. S. Eliot Pdf

When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so, because the published version of The Waste Land was considerably shorter than the original. How it was reduced and edited is clearly revealed on the manuscript through the handwritten notes of Ezra Pound, of Eliot's first wife, Vivien, and of Eliot himself. In order that this material might be widely available for study, the poet's widow Mrs Valerie Eliot prepared the present edition, in 1971, in which each page of the original manuscript was reproduced in facsimile, with a clear transcript facing pages. Mrs Eliot also included an illuminating introduction, explanatory notes and cross-references, together with the text of the first published version of The Waste Land, thus completing the evolution of the most influential poem in modern literature. To mark the centenary of the original poem, and celebrate fifty years of the facsimile, Eliot's original pages are published here in the startling vivacity of full colour for the first time. The present edition reissues, with corrections, of the text of the 1980 reprint, and includes an appendix of original materials not previously made available.

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot,Michael North
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393974995

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The Waste Land by Thomas Stearns Eliot,Michael North Pdf

The text of Eliot s 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot s own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves."

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300181777

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The Little Review "Ulysses" by James Joyce Pdf

James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed obscene and scandalous, resulting in the eventual seizure of The Little Review and the placing of a legal ban on Joyce's masterwork that would not be lifted in the United States until 1933. For the first time, The Little Review “Ulysses” brings together the serial installments of Ulysses to create a new edition of the novel, enabling teachers, students, scholars, and general readers to see how one of the previous century's most daring and influential prose narratives evolved, and how it was initially introduced to an audience who recognized its radical potential to transform Western literature. This unique and essential publication also includes essays and illustrations designed to help readers understand the rich contexts in which Ulysses first appeared and to trace the complex changes Joyce introduced after it was banned.

Author : James E. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271033198

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T. S. Eliot by James E. Miller Jr. Pdf

Late in his life T. S. Eliot, when asked if his poetry belonged in the tradition of American literature, replied: “I’d say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England. That I’m sure of. . . . In its sources, in its emotional springs, it comes from America.” In T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, James Miller offers the first sustained account of Eliot’s early years, showing that the emotional springs of his poetry did indeed come from America. Miller challenges long-held assumptions about Eliot’s poetry and his life. Eliot himself always maintained that his poems were not based on personal experience, and thus should not be read as personal poems. But Miller convincingly combines a reading of the early work with careful analysis of surviving early correspondence, accounts from Eliot’s friends and acquaintances, and new scholarship that delves into Eliot’s Harvard years. Ultimately, Miller demonstrates that Eliot’s poetry is filled with reflections of his personal experiences: his relationships with family, friends, and wives; his sexuality; his intellectual and social development; his influences. Publication of T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet marks a milestone in Eliot scholarship. At last we have a balanced portrait of the poet and the man, one that takes seriously his American roots. In the process, we gain a fuller appreciation for some of the best-loved poetry of the twentieth century.