ELIOT, T.S.
The Waste Land.
New York: Boni and Liveright , 1922.
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First Edition of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land; In the Scarce Original Dust Jacket In Fine Condition
First edition, second impression with the ‘a' dropped from "mountain" on page 41, and "water" with the 'a' on page 22 of one of the most influential works of the 20th century, number 595 of 1000 copies. Octavo, original stiff black cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.
The Waste Land expresses with great power the disillusionment and disgust of the period after World War I. In a series of fragmentary vignettes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for the Grail, it portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, and of human beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption. The depiction of spiritual emptiness in the secularized city--the decay of urbs aeterna (the "eternal city")--is not a simple contrast of the heroic past with the degraded present; it is rather a timeless, simultaneous awareness of moral grandeur and moral evil. The poem initially met with controversy as its complex and erudite style was alternately denounced for its obscurity and praised for its modernism.
The Waste Land.
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