{"product_id":"the-waste-land-9780871407177","title":"The Waste Land","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published in the United States by Boni \u0026amp; Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now back with its original publisher, includes a new introduction by Paul Muldoon, showcasing the poem's searing power and strange, jarring beauty. With a modernist design that matches the original, this edition allows contemporary readers to experience the poem the way readers would have seen it for the first time. \u003cp\u003eAs Muldoon writes, \"It's almost impossible to think of a world in which \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e did not exist. So profound has its influence been not only on twentieth-century poetry but on how we've come to view the century as a whole, the poem itself risks being taken for granted.\" Famously elliptical, wildly allusive, at once transcendent and bleak, \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e defined modernity after the First World War, forever transforming our understanding of ourselves, the broken world we live in, and the literature that was meant to make sense of it. In a voice that is arch, ironic, almost ebullient, and yet world-weary and tragic, T. S. Eliot mixes and remixes, drawing on a cast of ghosts to create a new literature for a new world. In the words of Edmund Wilson, \"Eliot...is one of our only authentic poets...[\u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e is] one triumph after another.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEliot, T. S.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eT. S. Eliot\u003c\/strong\u003e (1888-1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He is the author of some of the best known poems in the English language, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, Ash Wednesday, and \u003cem\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/em\u003e. The leading poet of the modernist avant-garde, Eliot radically reimagined the possibilities for literature in the twentieth century and beyond, and was also renowned as a playwright and as a literary and social critic. Eliot's books of criticism include \u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Wood\u003c\/em\u003e, while his theatrical works include \u003cem\u003eMurder in the Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMuldoon, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Muldoon\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Word on the Street\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641996742930,"sku":"9780871407177","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec0b8dca-f3ee-4e25-911a-a41242840361.jpg?v=1733050422","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-waste-land-9780871407177","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}