The Annotated Waste Land with Eliots Contemporary Prose 2ed 2ed

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Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliots 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 CriterionFor 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 —- ISBN: 9780300119947