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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. a good edition of Eliot for the casual reader: I found this edition by Penguin to be very useful for a casual reading. The notes on the poems, in particular "the Waste Land," are detailed enough to give the reader a perception of Eliot's vast literary knowledge and its effect on his poems. However, the notes are inadequate if your purpose is to deeply understand the background of Eliot's complex and difficult poetry. So if you are looking for deep insights, I would recommend the Norton Critical Edition. For the normal reader, this is satisfying and straightforward.  iayork | Aug 9, 2009 |  The best thing about this edition isn't the historical information (blah), the initial reception (much fun) or the later criticism (you've seen it all before). It's . . . okay, the best thing is the poem itself, obviously. So wonderful to see bleak modernism that's this rich and bloody, as opposed to Beckett's bleak modernism, say, which is so gratingly, scrapingly anti-life. But what I was actually referring to was the painstaking inclusion of original texts, from the central (Tiresias) to the very peripheral (the Goldsmith poem that is adapted for a couple of lines). They widen and deepen the poem before your eyes like a fourth dimension, an undiscovered dialogic country. I know that's what critical editions are meant to do, but The Waste Land is particularly well suited for it - it goes from an epic grumble to something approaching novelized poetry, in the Bakhtinian sense of "novel;" a knot of intersubjectivities. It's also wonderful. (  )3  booksfallapart | Nov 14, 2008 | 10.0  Listener42 | Sep 1, 2008 | Some dazzling and unusual imagery, which makes for an interesting and unforgettable read, but I don't like the fact that one has to sit with an encyclopedia on one's lap to be able to get all the references. (  ) Niecierpek | Dec 27, 2007 | Words fail me, but they in no way failed Eliot. As good as words get. ( ) the_terrible_trivium | Apr 27, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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