What the thunder said : how The waste land made poetry modern

What the thunder said : how The waste land made poetry modern /

"On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rasula, Jed (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965. > Waste land.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965 > Influence.
Eliot, T. S. > (Thomas Stearns), > 1888-1965
Waste land (Eliot, T. S.)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one
  • Wagnerism
  • The forest of symbols & the listening eye
  • Becoming modern
  • Part two
  • The school of images
  • Pig Cupid
  • Enter Eliot
  • Part three
  • "My nerves are bad tonight"
  • "I have heard the mermaids singing"
  • Other voices
  • Part four
  • Parallax
  • "Ezra Pound speaking"
  • Significant emotion.

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