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Summary
In the centenary year of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, this handprinted letterpress print is available exclusively on faber.co.uk. Become a Faber Member, for free, to buy.
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
The print features the final section of the first part of Eliot’s poem. 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.
Our letterpress prints are available exclusively from faber.co.uk for Faber Members. The Waste Land letterpress has been printed in beautiful dark forest green ink on 350gsm Favini Crush paper.
Each print is packaged in a compostable cellophane sleeve and cardboard envelope for protection during transit.
The print measures 252 x 178mm and the font used is Ehrhardt.
T. S.Eliot
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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