![]() ![]() ![]() Alfred Prufrock,” “Portrait of a Lady,” “Gerontion,” and more.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This edition includes “The Love Song of J. Through pastiche and collage Eliot unfolds a nightmarish landscape of sexual disorder and spiritual desolation, inhabited by the voice (literary, historical, mythic, contemporary) of an unconscious that is at turns deeply personal and culturally collective. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the Fisher King, and ancient fertility cults, “The Waste Land” is both a poetic diagnosis of an ailing civilization and a desperate quest for spiritual renewal. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. ![]()
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