The Waste Land and Other Writings

Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood

Introduction by Mary Karr

First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, 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 potent new poetic language.

Endorsements

“Eliot articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.” — Kenneth Rexroth