The Waste Land and Other Poems

The Waste Land is the most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poem of the twentieth-century written by the most famous poet of the century. It 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. The poem caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Western city had become a sterile desert waste land, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality. Eliot's words have permanently entered our cultural bloodstream. Through his poems Eliot reshaped modern literature with a daring and overpowering vision of a decaying civilization and the urgent need for spiritual renewal. The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot. Hardcover 80 pages.