Liveright
September 2013
On Sale: September 9, 2013
96 pages ISBN: 0871407175 EAN: 9780871407177 Kindle: B00CLUXB9Y Hardcover / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
The first edition of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece
reappears with a major introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner
Paul Muldoon.
The Waste Land is
arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century.
First published in the United States by Boni & Liveright
in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now
back with its original publisher, includes a new
introduction by Paul Muldoon, showcasing the poem's searing
power and strange, jarring beauty. With a modernist design
that matches the original, this edition allows contemporary
readers to experience the poem the way readers would have
seen it for the first time.
As Muldoon writes, "It's
almost impossible to think of a world in which The Waste
Land did not exist. So profound has its influence been
not only on twentieth-century poetry but on how we’ve come
to view the century as a whole, the poem itself risks being
taken for granted." Famously elliptical, wildly allusive, at
once transcendent and bleak, The Waste Land defined
modernity after the First World War, forever transforming
our understanding of ourselves, the broken world we live in,
and the literature that was meant to make sense of it. In a
voice that is arch, ironic, almost ebullient, and yet
world-weary and tragic, T. S. Eliot mixes and remixes,
drawing on a cast of ghosts to create a new literature for a
new world. In the words of Edmund Wilson, "Eliot…is one of
our only authentic poets…[The Waste Land is] one
triumph after another."
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