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| 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. |
| Matt Simpson is a poet and critic and formerly a university
lecturer in English. He is the author of five books in the Greenwich
Exchange Student Guide Literary Series. |
| This series is available at a special price of £3.99
for schools only. |
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