The Waste Land

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot s notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land s sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poem s reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first r...

For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot s notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land s sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the poem s reception with twenty-five reviews and essays, from first reactions through the end of the twentieth century. Included are reviews published in the Times Literary Supplement, along with selections by Virginia Woolf, Gilbert Seldes, Edmund Wilson, Elinor Wylie, Conrad Aiken, Charles Powell, Gorham Munson, Malcolm Cowley, Ralph Ellison, John Crowe Ransom, I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, Delmore Schwartz, Denis Donoghue, Robert Langbaum, Marianne Thormahlen, A. D. Moody, Ronald Bush, Maud Ellman, and Tim Armstrong. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

托•斯•艾略特(T.S.Eliot,1888-1965)，诗人、剧作家和文学批评家，诗歌现代派运动领袖。

出生于美国密苏里州的圣路易斯。一九二二年发表的《荒原》为他赢得了国际声誉，被评论界看作是二十世纪最有影响力的一部诗作，至今仍被认为是英美现代诗歌的里程碑。

一九二七年，艾略特加入英国国籍。一九四三年结集出版的《四首四重奏》使他获得了诺贝尔文学奖，并确立了当时在世的最伟大英语诗人和作家的地位。

晚年致力于诗剧创作，一九六五年艾略特在伦敦逝世。