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T. S. Eliot · 2001
A Norton Critical Edition of T. S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, featuring the authoritative text alongside contextual sources, composition history, Eliot's own critical writings, and a comprehensive collection of critical essays spanning from early reviews to contemporary reconsiderations.
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Civilization's spiritual exhaustion shows in fragmented voices, sterile desire, and the buried possibility of redemptive myth.
mortality
I will show you fear in a handful of dust… I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing, looking into the heart of light, the silence.
WLT-RC-010He who was living is now dead / We who were living are now dying / With a little patience.
WLT-RC-020desire
Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives… the typist home at teatime… I Tiresias have foresuffered all.
WLT-RC-017He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time, / And if you don't give it him, there's others will.
WLT-RC-014faith-and-doubt
Between these Mystery cults and Christianity there existed a close union… a 'Eucharistic' Feast, in which the worshippers partook of the Food of Life.
WLT-RC-038Then spoke the thunder DA / Datta: what have we given? / The awful daring of a moment's surrender / Which an age of prudence can never retract.
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