Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land includes as a bonus all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history.
"More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of The Waste Land ever published."-Adam Kirsch, New Criterion
"For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition."-Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Lawrence Rainey is professor and chair in modernist literature, Department of English, University of York. He is the author of Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture, published by Yale University Press.


Book Information
ISBN 9780300119947
Author T. S. Eliot
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press
Weight(grams) 408g