The Waste Land and Other Writings
内容简介
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
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.
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作者简介
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Lan d, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Mary Karr is an award-winning poet, essayist, and memoirist. She is also the author of four books of poetry, Abacus, The Devil’s Tour, Viper Rum, and Sinners Welcome, and three memoirs, The Liar’s Club, Cherry, and Lit.
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目录
How to Read "The Waste Land" So It Alters Your Soul Rather Than Just Addling Your Head ix
The Waste Land and Other Poems
Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) 3
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 3
Portrait of a Lady 8
Preludes 12
Rhapsody on a Windy Night 14
Morning at the Window 16
The Boston Evening Transcript 16
Aunt Helen 17
Cousin Nancy 17
Mr. Apollinax 18
Hysteria 19
Conversation Galante 19
La Figlia Che Piange 20
Poems (1920) 22
Gerontion 22
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar 25
Sweeney Erect 26
A Cooking Egg 28
Le Directeur 29
Melange Adultere de Tout 30
Lune de Miel 30
The Hippopotamus 31
Dans Le Restaurant 32
Whispers of Immortality 33
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service 35
Sweeney Among the Nightingales 36
The Waste Land 38
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
Introduction 59
The Perfect Critic 64
Imperfect Critics 76
Tradition and the Individual Talent 99
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama 109
Euripides and Professor Murray 117
"Rhetoric" and Poetic Drama 123
Some Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe 129
Hamlet and His Problems 137
Ben Jonson 144
Philip Massinger 158
Swinburne as Poet 174
Blake 180
Dante 186
Andrew Marvell 197
John Dryden 212
The Metaphysical Poets 224
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