Frank Kermode (1919-2010) was one of the twentieth century's greatest critics. The Waste Land confirmed his reputation as an innovative poet. He worked for a bank while writing poetry, teaching, and reviewing, and was soon recognized as a force in the British literary world.
Louis, Missouri, and spent many of his adult years in England. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.īy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureĪbout the Author Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born and raised in St. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Gerontion," and more. This edition includes "The Love Song of J. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, "The Waste Land" is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.Ī Penguin Classic While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. Alfred Prufrock, " "Portrait of a Lady, " "Gerontion, " and others. About the Book This collection of Eliot's first three volumes of verse includes "The Love Song of J.
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