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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have read some of these poems before (Prufrock, The Wasteland) and I enjoyed discovering others I had not heard of. My favorites were La Figlia Che Piange, Gerontion and A Cooking Egg. I did not give each poem the same scrutiny I had to the ones previously read (no school assignment means no ten hour research project), but I do not think that detracted from the experience of reading Eliot. Admittedly I did not understand every poem in here; however, one of the great things about this edition is that it had plenty of endnotes to help you decipher them. Furthermore, the introduction gave great insight to T.S. Eliot and his works and I felt that my overall comprehension was greatly increased due to this. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Considered the most important poem of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is an oblique and fascinating view of the hopelessness and confusion of purpose in modern Western civilization. Published in 1922--the same year as Joyce's equally monumental "Ulysses"--"The Waste Land" is a series of fragmentary dramatic monologues and cultural quotations that crossfade into one another. Eliot believed that this style best represented the fragmentation of society, and his poem portrays a sterile world of panicky fears and barren lusts, and of human beings waiting for some sign or promise of redemption. Mirroring the destruction and disillusionment of World War I, "The Waste Land" had the effect of a bomb exploded in a genteel drawing room, just as its author intended. This volume also includes "Prufrock and Other Observations" (1917) and "Poems" (1919). Prufrock contains the poem that first put Eliot on the map, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " in which the title character is tormented by the difficulty of articulating his complex feelings. Among other masterpieces, "Poems" features "Gerontion," a meditative interior monologue in blank verse--a poem like none before it in the English language. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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While I am right now in no way ready to critique Eliot’s work, I will do so in the volume it was presented in. While the publishers and editors wanted to present Eliot’s work with his personal Notes or footnotes in the back of the book to preserve the author’s intention of presentation, over the course of reading the exercise of going from the front of the book to the back to understand the footnotes became tiresome. And while reading “The Waste Land” I had three places marked in my book so as to read the poem and then look at Eliot’s own Notes and the publisher’s footnotes, which quickly became a trial.
This is a book I’m going to have to re-read over and over again for years to come to truly appreciate Eliot’s work. If you’re a better rounded literary individual than I am then this volume will probably be for you as it presents Eliot’s work in the forefront with no intruding footnotes at the bottom of the page; however if you are a reader like myself who wants to enjoy Eliot but needs the help of footnotes I suggest getting another volume in which footnotes are closer to the text they amply. ( )