{"product_id":"the-waste-land-and-other-writings-isbn-9780375759345","title":"The Waste Land and Other Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlso includes \u003ci\u003ePrufrock and Other Observations, Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(1920), and \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Mary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot’s poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a potent new poetic language. As Kenneth Rexroth wrote, Eliot “articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression.” As commanding as his verse, Eliot’s criticism also transformed twentieth-century letters, and this Modern Library edition includes a selection of Eliot’s most important essays.\u003cb\u003eMary Karr\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning poet, essayist, and memoirist. She is also the author of four books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eAbacus, The Devil’s Tour, Viper Rum, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSinners Welcome, \u003c\/i\u003eand three memoirs, \u003ci\u003eThe Liar’s Club\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCherry, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Lit\u003c\/i\u003e.Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThou hast committed\u003cbr\u003eFornication: but that was in another country,\u003cbr\u003eAnd besides, the wench is dead.\u003cbr\u003eThe Jew of Malta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003eAmong the smoke and fog of a December afternoon\u003cbr\u003eYou have the scene arrange itself as it will seem to do\u003cbr\u003eWith  I have saved this afternoon for you;\u003cbr\u003eAnd four wax candles in the darkened room,\u003cbr\u003eFour rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,\u003cbr\u003eAn atmosphere of Juliet’s tomb\u003cbr\u003ePrepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.\u003cbr\u003eWe have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole\u003cbr\u003eTransmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul\u003cbr\u003eShould be resurrected only among friends\u003cbr\u003eSome two or three, who will not touch the bloom\u003cbr\u003eThat is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so the conversation slips\u003cbr\u003eAmong velleities and carefully caught regrets\u003cbr\u003eThrough attenuated tones of violins\u003cbr\u003eMingled with remote cornets\u003cbr\u003eAnd begins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,\u003cbr\u003eAnd how, how rare and strange it is, to find\u003cbr\u003eIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,\u003cbr\u003e[For indeed I do not love it . . . you knew? you are not blind!\u003cbr\u003eHow keen you are!]\u003cbr\u003eTo find a friend who has these qualities,\u003cbr\u003eWho has, and gives\u003cbr\u003eThose qualities upon which friendship lives.\u003cbr\u003eHow much it means that I say this to you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout these friendships life, what cauchemar!\u003cbr\u003eAmong the windings of the violins\u003cbr\u003eAnd the ariettes\u003cbr\u003eOf cracked cornets\u003cbr\u003eInside my brain a dull tom-tom begins\u003cbr\u003eAbsurdly hammering a prelude of its own,\u003cbr\u003eCapricious monotone\u003cbr\u003eThat is at least one definite false note.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet us take the air, in a tobacco trance,\u003cbr\u003eAdmire the monuments,\u003cbr\u003eDiscuss the late events,\u003cbr\u003eCorrect our watches by the public clocks.\u003cbr\u003eThen sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305202045157,"sku":"NP9780375759345","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375759345.jpg?v=1767742136","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-waste-land-and-other-writings-isbn-9780375759345","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}