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A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot's most groundbreaking poems

A Penguin Classic

Loosely based on the Arthurian legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, "The Waste Land", which first appeared in 1922, is a landmark work of Modernist poetry. Containing hundreds of allusions and quotations from other works, "The Waste Land" is marked by a disjointed... Read Full Overview

The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot's notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and Poems (1920). Updated and expanded editorial matter by Michael North. Invaluable contextual materials on The Waste Land's sources and its composition and publication... Read Full Overview

Written by T. S. Eliot, the poem "The Waste Land" is widely seen as one of the most famous poems of the 20th century. This edition includes the full poem as well as T. S. Eliot's notes. Furthermore, other selected poems by T.S. Eliot are featured in this book like "Gerontion",... Read Full Overview

The early works that established Eliot as a modern master

This volume includes the title poem as well as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Gerontion," "Ash Wednesday," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of... Read Full Overview

And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'