The Waste Land - in The Dial magazine -
T.S. Eliot
1922 - The Dial Publishing Co., Greenwich - First American Edition
The first appearance in the United States of Eliot's groundbreaking poem. The Waste Land was first published in the October issue of The Criterion of London, and the November issue of the Dial of New York. This precedes the printing of the poem in any book form.
By the end of the 20th century Eliot's work stood as the archetypal modernist poem. It seemed to exemplify the crisis of the self and a whole Western culture despite Eliot's claim that he "wrote The Waste Land simply to relieve [his] feelings." After the Great War, and also after World War Two, it provided a voice for a whole generation with its themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.
“Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, ‘the hope only of empty men’, written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote of Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears.‘ Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900’ (Pound)." - Connolly, The Modern Movement.
[Pp. [473]-485 in The Dial. 25x16.5 cm. Gallup A6c; Woolmer 28.] Condition: A very good copy, some wear and minor chipping to wrapper edges, the spine has been rebacked with most of original spine strip laid on. Ref: 103613 Price: Please contact us for a price or general inquiries about this book
By the end of the 20th century Eliot's work stood as the archetypal modernist poem. It seemed to exemplify the crisis of the self and a whole Western culture despite Eliot's claim that he "wrote The Waste Land simply to relieve [his] feelings." After the Great War, and also after World War Two, it provided a voice for a whole generation with its themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.
“Of The Waste Land I will say nothing but that we should read it every April. It is the breviary of post-war disillusion, ‘the hope only of empty men’, written in Switzerland after a near break-down, pruned of some connecting passages (including a ship-wreck) by Pound, and as Adrienne Monnier wrote of Pelléas, hard to listen to without tears.‘ Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the modern experiment since 1900’ (Pound)." - Connolly, The Modern Movement.
[Pp. [473]-485 in The Dial. 25x16.5 cm. Gallup A6c; Woolmer 28.] Condition: A very good copy, some wear and minor chipping to wrapper edges, the spine has been rebacked with most of original spine strip laid on. Ref: 103613 Price: Please contact us for a price or general inquiries about this book