{"product_id":"the-waste-land-and-other-poems-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393679434","title":"The Waste Land and Other Poems: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"This Norton Critical Edition includes: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first American edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, with Eliot's notes, joined by \u003cem\u003ePrufrock and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1917) and \u003cem\u003ePoems\u003c\/em\u003e (1920).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Updated and expanded introductory materials and footnotes by Michael North.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Extensive contextual materials on sources for \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, its composition, and publication history for all three featured collections. Eleven reviews and reactions to Eliot's works include those by Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Five new critical essays examine the themes and legacy of Eliot's hallmark poems alongside eight classic literary critiques.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A chronology and a selected bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This splendid new edition of T. S. Eliot's landmark poem provides an authoritative 1922 edition of the text, the most vital materials for understanding it, and, for this supremely allusive poem, a collection of essential sources. It also brings together Eliot's most pertinent essays and all the English poems in his earlier books, as well as an illuminating array of reviews and criticism published over the last hundred years.\" -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia\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\u003eNorth, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael North\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Final Sculpture: Public Monuments and Modern Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHenry Green and the Writing of His Generation\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as many articles on various aspects of twentieth-century literature.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726925664530,"sku":"9780393679434","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e23d3687-0d8a-454d-a277-e466e221f438.jpg?v=1734889391","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-waste-land-and-other-poems-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393679434","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}