![]() The first UK book edition was published by the Hogarth Press, run by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in September 1923. In the US it appeared in the November 1922 issue of The Dial magazine. ![]() The Waste Land was first published in the UK in the October 1922 issue of The Criterion, a literary magazine started and edited by Eliot. The narrative space of The Waste Land is dominated primarily by women, both contemporary and mythical, who illustrate the brutal relationship between men and women. ![]() Few, however, have considered the role his portrayal of women plays in supporting his poetic themes. When Mr Eliot speaks in his own language and his own voice it is like this at one moment:įor the rest one can only say that if Mr Eliot had been pleased to write in demotic English The Waste Land might not have been, as it just is to all but anthropologists and literati, so much waste paper. Eliot has frequently been criticized for his misogynistic treatment of women in his poetry. Lines of German, French, and Italian are thrown in at will or whim so too are solos from nightingales, cocks, hermit-thrushes, and Ophelia. A wealth of interactive features illuminate T. ![]() Dr Fraser and Miss JL Weston are freely and admittedly his creditors, and the bulk of the poem is under an enormously composite and cosmopolitan mortgage to Spenser, Shakespeare, Webster, Kyd, Middleton, Marvell, Goldsmith, Ezekiel, Buddha, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, St Augustine, Baudelaire, Verlaine, and others. The Waste Land brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years for a 21st Century audience. ![]()
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