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... in between trying to get the dreaded thesis done, I have been reading Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, which is hilarous (The Waste Land in haiku form?! Genius!) and finishing off Creation or Evolution: Do we have to choose?, the answer being a resounding no. In my case it's kinda preaching ... The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot ... by Nicey
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
La Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac
Cuddle Up Tight by John Prater
The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock by T S Eliot ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Winter's Tale
Revelation/The Secret History
Never Let Me Go/Farewell My Lovely
The Waste Land/The Good Earth Just started Seabiscuit which has been on my shelf forever unread. Will take it and The Wasteland and other poems on a long flight this week. Had a nice leisurely stroll through my bookstore today while waiting for the bus outside. Bought a few poetry books: The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S Eliot and 100 Selected Poems by e.e cummings. Also bought two paperback mysteries: In the Woods by Tana French and What the Dead Know by La ... ... double that amount.
Scarcity makes for rapidly increasing value of an important work. A seminal work like Eliot's The Waste Land in the Hogarth Press edition of less than 500 copies is valued at nearly $200,000 US and Manning's The Middle Parts of Fortune at 520 copies fetches well ... 22. The Waste Land and Other Writings - T. S. Eliot
I’m not sure what to say about this one… yet. This book contained many of Eliot’s poems, not just The Waste Land. I found his earlier work easier on the brain. I read The Waste Land twice and though it left me with distinct images, I ... ... the local community college. For that class, I read and wrote critical essays on: Invisible Man, Death of a Salesman, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Araby, one of the short stories from Joyce's The Dubliners, and Barn Burning by Faulkner. To tell you the truth, I pretty much ... ... poem has to be on a piece of paper and a piece of paper has two sides, so on the other side of mine I'm hastily scribbling The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock too. You're Subaltern's Love Song just reminded me of it.
I think what you're saying is that Scottie will stand guard on the bank ... The Art of War (not) by George W. Bush
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Bill Clinton
The Waste Land by Hollywood film-makers
Emily Post's Etiquette by Larry the Cable Guy
The Devil Wears Prada by Antonin Scalia ... in the library. That included their amazing out of print edition of Ulysses from 20 years ago and their new edition of The Waste Land. Now if only I can come up with the $600 for a copy...or better yet the $1500/year for a subscription. A Book Lover's Dream!
They do tours on Thursday's ... Kim (Kipling)
Joy in the morning (Wodehouse)
The tempest (Shakespeare)
The origin of species (Darwin)
The wasteland and other poems (T.S. Eliot)
Paradise lost (Milton)
Bleak House (Dickens)
Die Blechtrommel / The tin drum (Grass)
La vie, mode d'emploi / Life, a user's ... Kim (Kipling)
Joy in the morning (Wodehouse)
The tempest (Shakespeare)
The origin of species (Darwin)
The wasteland and other poems (T.S. Eliot)
Paradise lost (Milton)
Bleak House (Dickens)
Die Blechtrommel / The tin drum (Grass)
La vie, mode d'emploi / Life, a user's ... Reading a bunch for school:
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Easily one of my favorite books. I am re-reading this for the 5th or 6th time.
Existentialism: Basic Writings by Charles Guignon.
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. I don't get it. At all.
... Don Juan in Hell Bernard Shaw
The Master and the Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
So This Is Depravity by Russell Baker
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
All ... ... writing I've got Write Away - Elizabeth George. There's Cinnamon Kiss - Walter Mosley. I really need to finish The Wasteland and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot. And American Theocracy - Kevin Phillips in preparation for my early review of American Theocracy Unmasked, which of ... I've decided to call an intervention with myself. I must finish Wuthering Heights, The Wasteland and Other Poems and half of The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton before I start anything else. Good. I can stand to have some poetry dancing in my ear; the quotidian has been crowding the ethereal ... ... She writes the mind of a woman like no one has before or since. I own and treasure every one of her books.
6. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. No other poet I've read can match his imagery.
7. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Papa Hemingway has no equal in modern ... ... for all the info, grunin. I knew HarperCollins had that CD, but that's not where I got my recordings from. I ripped the Waste Land reading from the old LP, probably the one you mentioned.
You can actually download the reading of Prufrock from Salon Audio (although it does have an ... ... owns the Caedmon recordings. The one CD they've issued appears to be a straight copy of the old LP "T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land and other poems, but they call it " Essential Eliot. A ... ... be to get your hands on the recordings. If you'd like, I'd be willing to email you the .mp3 files I have of Eliot reading The Waste Land and Prufrock. Send me an email via my profile page if you're interested.
As for interpreting the poem, I agree it's much more difficult than his other ... Aren't those recordings of Eliot fantastic? I love The Waste Land especially, listening to him pronounce the fragmented and foreign words. I was very taken with The Waste Land in college, and memorized his Portrait of a Lady and Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service in the course of a cross-country road trip.
I recommend the Facsimile Edition of the Waste Land. It helped me to read the poem with new eyes, seeing how ... Prufrock is my favorite as well, although The Waste Land is a close second. I also adore the Four Quartets.
Thanks for starting this group, Dydo. Murder in the Cathedral. My high school did it for the UIL one act, and I fell in love with Eliot. I also love the Waste Land.
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