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Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation between the two World Wars.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber’s publishing over the decades.
Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet, critic, publisher, was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915, where for a few years he worked in the foreign section of Lloyds Bank. His first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917. In 1922, he became editor of the literary journal, The Criterion, publishing The Waste Land in its first…
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The Waste Land, first published in the inaugural issue of The Criterion in October 1922, celebrates its centenary in 2022.
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