The editor provides detailed explanatory annotations as well as Eliot's own notes, some of which require annotations themselves. The text included is that of the first American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot's notes appearing at the end of the poem. "Contexts" collects invaluable materials on The Waste Land's many sources, its composition, and its publication history. Included are excerpts from works by Sir James G. Frazer, J. L. Weston, Aldous...

The first full-color facsimile of T. S. Eliot{u2019}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...

An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T.S. Eliot.

"A biography of T. S. Eliot from his birth in St. Louis in 1888 to his publication of The Waste Land in 1922"--

From the Publisher: First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and...

"A rediscovered story of unrequited love, Mary and Mr. Eliot reveals an intimate new portrait of T. S. Eliot--and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history"--

Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein's salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein's Picassos and vie for status. Young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later. When Teddy falls in with the Stein set, he brings Ida to the salon, where she is shunted...

"When the T. S. Eliot estate finally opened the previously embargoed 1,131 letters Eliot sent to Emily Hale, his little-known American love, Eliot scholars rushed to explore Hale's impact on Eliot's work. But a tantalizing question has remained: who was Emily Hale? The Silenced Muse tells Emily Hale's side of a complicated relationship and reveals that she was more than just the inspiration for a literary celebrity. Hale was a talented actress and...