The Waste Land and Other Poems

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by T. S. Eliot

A Vintage Classics edition of T. S. Eliot’s most groundbreaking poems      Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” Those famous concluding lines of T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” have resonated with readers for nearly a century. As with “April is the cruelest month,” from The Waste Land and “Do I dare disturb the universe?,” from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot’s words have permanently entered our cultural bloodstream. Through the poems in this volume, representing his first four published collections, Eliot reshaped modern literature with a daring and overpowering vision of a decaying civilization and the urgent need for spiritual renewal.

Introduction by Helen Vendler
Spleen
The Death of Saint Narcissus
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Preludes
The Boston Evening Transcript
Hysteria
La Figlia Che Piange
Gerontion
The Hippopotamus
Whispers of Immortality
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
Ash-Wednesday
Journey of the Magi
Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg (From Five-finger Exercises)

Annotations
Selected Bibliography