T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' is widely considered the most important poem written in English in the 20th Century. In an attempt to see it 'whole', Matt Simpson considers this complex work in great detail, bringing to life its many arcane-seeming allusions and trying to link together the many disparate fragments out of which it is made. He interprets it primarily as an elegy, a despairing window on lost friendship, disillusion, the breakdown of communal values and the poet's own health, and consequently as a quest for purpose, meaning and possible redemption in an intimidating world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
ISBN-10
1906075093
ISBN-13
9781906075095
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105586634
Product Key Features
Author
Matt Simpson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Series Title
Focus ON
Date of Publication
05/11/2007
Imprint
Greenwich Exchange Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
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