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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose - Eliot, T. S.; Rainey, Lawrence - Yale University Press
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Jul 31, 2006
304 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
13 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300119947
ISBN-10: 0300119941
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Paper: $17.00
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary ProseSecond Edition
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T. S. Eliot; Edited, with Annotations and Introduction, by Lawrence Rainey
Included in Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles list, January 2006. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2006. Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2007. Received rating of "Outstanding" from 2007 AAUP University Press Books Committee.
Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land includes as a bonus all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history.
“More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of The Waste Land ever published.”—Adam Kirsch, New Criterion
“For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition.”—Publishers Weekly
Lawrence Rainey is professor and chair in modernist literature, Department of English, University of York. He is the author of Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, published by Yale University Press.
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