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The Waste Land and Other Poems: Including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (original 1922; edition 1998)

by T. S. Eliot (Author), Helen Vendler (Editor)

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This volume includes the title poem as well as " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " Ash Wednesday, " " Sweeney Among the Nightingales, " and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. " Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English" (Edmund Wilson).… (more)
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Title:The Waste Land and Other Poems: Including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Authors:T. S. Eliot (Author)
Other authors:Helen Vendler (Editor)
Info:Signet (1998), Edition: 1.2.1998, 128 pages
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my mind is to puny to properly comprehend all that is going on in these poems, yet it was fun to try. i will definitely read these again, and it will probably take me years before i actually begin to unpack anything within these masterful works of art. in the mean time, i give you perhaps the only quote i understood from these poems:

"Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison"

i can only hope to one day be given the brain space to properly understand a fraction of these poems. ( )
  salllamander | Feb 11, 2024 |
This collection opens with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which is one of my favourite poems, and one I've read quite a few times over the years. "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" remains one of my favourite lines ever committed to the page.

I don't think I'm well-read enough, nor intellectually inclined enough, to grasp "The Waste Land", at least not after one reading, so I'm going to go read a bit about it, and come back to the poem later. (I think most/all poems need to be read several times, anyway). But I enjoy the rhythm of Eliot's work, and his word choices, and that's all I've got. ( )
  floppingbunnies | Jun 29, 2023 |
This was just a first, cursory read of many future ones, I'm sure. The version of Landscapes in this edition didn't have the last two sections in it (#5 being Cape Ann), so I'm interested to hunt that new one down. ( )
  graceandbenji | Sep 1, 2022 |
I have reviewed The Waste Land alone HERE

I have read the other poems in the past and will re-read and review each of them at some point. Digesting just The Waste Land is enough for right now.

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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
Reading Stephen Spender's biography and critical introduction to the work of T. S. Eliot did not do anything to change my opinion about these poems. Reading them may be interesting but I do not care much for this intellectualism.

Just as in my student days, I still only really like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock" but I did not like any of the other poems. ( )
  edwinbcn | Jan 3, 2022 |
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Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table; / Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question... / Oh, do not ask, 'What is is?' / Let us go and make our visit.
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This work (Harcourt) contains the following selected poems:
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Preludes
- Gerontion
- Sweeney Among the Nightingales
- The Waste Land
- Ash-Wednesday
- Journey of the Magi
- Marina
- Landscapes (I. New Hampshire; II Virginia; III Usk)
- Two Choruses from 'The Rock'

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This volume includes the title poem as well as " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " " Gerontion, " " Ash Wednesday, " " Sweeney Among the Nightingales, " and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work. " Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English" (Edmund Wilson).

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