The Waste Land

The Waste LandHelen Vendler writes that The Waste Land reached so far beyond its origins in both life and literature that it revolutionized modern verse. This long poem, published in 1922, was immediately recognized as a masterpiece, and it remains an icon of English literature. T. S. Eliot (1888 1965), born in St. Louis, Missouri, settled in London in 1914, became a British citizen in 1927, and remained in England the rest of his life. By mid century Eliot was

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