حل عن الله تبعي ولووو , مو ناقص غير تقلي " ما أجمل صورة حذائها المنعكسة على سيراميك الحمام "
The Waste Land is one of the greatest works of poetry in the 20th century.Indeed, this poem passes every description, and goes beyond words. It's the truest, the prettiest, and the most touching poem ever. It's a magnificent depiction of our "modern" world which is sinking in a huge pool of mud. I...
To be re-read every three years. Or two. Or one.
Sat 31/03/12: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01dvzg7/Afternoon_Drama_The_Waste_Land/Turn the wheel and look to Winward is quite the line bbc blurb - Roger McGough introduces requests for TS Eliot's groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land. First published in 1922, the programme draws upon...
Great poem and great edition. As always, Norton is excellent at providing contextual materials and shitty at making covers that aren't ugly.
I'm doing a line by line close reading of The Wasteland, because I have the utter gall and audacity to think that I may do some kind of review here. I don't know what that will look like, yet -- but I reckon if I make this note, some of the goodreaders might actually hold me to it.I'm through secti...
the facsimile edition (published around 1969) of the original draft, with valerie eliot & ezra pound's mark-ups, indispensable : you get an impression of how much of the final was pound's edit ... fascinating study.
No leo mucha poesía, pero cuando lo hago es T. S. Eliot.
Eliot and Pinter have a lot in common. I don't think it makes any sense until you have people reading it aloud. And if they're at all good, it's great.