The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The...
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A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more).
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486400617 (0486400611)
ASIN: 486400611
Publish date: January 26th 1998
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 49
Edition language: English
(Original review, 1981-05-10)It seems to me that the author of 'Prufrock' and that of the Wasteland are so different as to be un-recognisable. A look at the Wasteland reveals a lot of, to me, gratuitous classical referencing for which we might like to blame Pound and while I value its novelty (where...
One of the few hyped poets who doesn't disappoint. He walks the line between the formality of the past and the modernity of contemporary times. Read this for his serious side, then read Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats for something lighter.
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