The Waste Land (MCI) (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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Book Description
Harold Bloom suggests The Waste Land is an American self-elegy masking as a mythological romance, a Romantic crisis poem pretending to be an exercise in Christian irony. Eight other critical views of Eliot's text are offered here.
The title, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism o... More
Book Information
| Publisher | Chelsea House Publishers |
| Binding | Hardcover (8 editions) |
| Reading Level | Young Adults |
| # of Pages | 163 |
| ISBN-10 | 1555460380 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1555460389 |
| Publication Date | 05/1988 |
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The Wasteland is a literary and spiritual adventure. Don't ask what it's about. Just experience it. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a much better poem as is Preludes but they also don't dare as much as Wasteland. If you read the poem outloud it's a much more meaningful experience. You hear th... more
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