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The Waste Land : A Biography of a Poem - 9780571297221

The Waste Land : A Biography of a Poem

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Author: Hollis, Matthew

Biography: literary

Published on 3 August 2023 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 544 pages
198 x 129 x 35 | 448g

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.

'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times Literary SupplementThe Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'. It has been labelled the most truthful poem of its time; it has been branded a masterful fake. More than a century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written.

In a remarkable feat of biography, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the creation of the poem and brings the material reality of its charged times vividly to life. He reveals the cultural and personal trauma that forged The Waste Land through the lives of its protagonists - Ezra Pound, who edited it; Vivien Eliot, who sustained it; and T. S. Eliot himself, whose private torment is woven into the seams of the work. The result is an unforgettable story of lives passing in opposing directions and the astounding literary legacy they would leave behind.