The Waste Land and Other Poems
Representing the essential T. S. Eliot, these 25 works include the title poem plus the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," others) and the complete Poems. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Representing the essential T. S. Eliot, these 25 works include the title poem plus the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," others) and the complete Poems. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780156948777 (015694877X)
ASIN: 9780156948777
Publish date: 28-08-1955
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
College,
Poetry,
Fiction
There is power in these poems. Religion, death, war, humor, family love. Eliot is one those authors that is taught in both American and English literature courses. I always see him as British. “In the room, the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo” Eliot’s lines from Prufrock remind me of ho...
3.5 starsI have wanted to read The Waste Land since seeing various quotes taken from it strewn throughout Stephen King's works. My favorites are "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." and "This is how the world ends / Not with a bang, but with a whimper."Those quotes have always given me a lit...
I'm not really a huge fan of poetry, unless it happens to be funny or to be accompanied by music. But, Eliot isn't bad if you read him like a playscript. It helps, really.
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