The Waste Land

Feb 10, 2021

The Waste Land - Eliot # Since the publication of letters written by T.S. Eliot, especially the Emily Hale collection, literary scholars have been privileged to gain greater insights into most of his writings. One example is Dr Adam Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogGcm_0YpzE&t=924s Published in 1922, along with James Joyce’s Ullysses and Yeat’s The Second Coming, The Waste Land marks a distinct pivotal literary style. Paradoxically while its innovative features are new, it harkens to the past for its derivative meanings through echoes, allusion, quotation (in several languages), a variety of verse forms, and a collage of poetic fragments. ...