Waste Land and Other Poems

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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain . . .

Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.

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Two works stand like a portal to the modernistic literature in the western world. And along with Joyce's «Ulysses» stands TS Eliot's «The Wasteland». The book was first published in 1922. Since then Eliot has become one of the most analysed and researched poets of modern time. The poems are loaded with references to amongst other things: the bible, Dante, Wagner and Greek plays. Al the poems has a dark tone. And as a whole they portray a cruel world. And with the modernist's total lack of respect for system and other conventional effects in poetry, this comes out as a disturbing work. Eliot once said: "A new piece of art must always frighten people". And this one even have the potential to do it today

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Detaljer

Forlag: Faber & Faber
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN: 9780571097128
Utgivelsesår: 2002
Format: 20 x 13 cm

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Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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faust – 18.07.2005

– T.S. Eliots The Waste Land må vel sies å være en av de store klassikerne innenfor modernistisk poesi, og det med god grunn. Diktet er utfordrende og vanskelig til tider, men formidler andre ganger så fantastiske stemninger at man må lese det flere ganger. Diktet refererer til mye annen klassisk litteratur, og derfor er det lett å gå glipp av poenger, men dette er en desto bedre grunn til å lese The Waste Land flere ganger. Diktet er kanskje for spesielt interesserte, men disse tror jeg vil like boken godt. En klassiker alle diktlesere og modernister burde få med seg, og mange andre også. Anbefales.

Rasputin – 10.01.2005

– Two works stand like a portal to the modernistic literature in the western world. And along with Joyce's «Ulysses» stands TS Eliot's «The Wasteland». The book was first published in 1922. Since then Eliot has become one of the most analysed and researched poets of modern time. The poems are loaded with references to amongst other things: the bible, Dante, Wagner and Greek plays. Al the poems has a dark tone. And as a whole they portray a cruel world. And with the modernist's total lack of respect for system and other conventional effects in poetry, this comes out as a disturbing work. Eliot once said: "A new piece of art must always frighten people". And this one even have the potential to do it today