The Waste Land

By T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot. The poem merges the myth of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with illustrations of early 20th century British society and is generally considered to be a central work of modernist poesy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: May 28, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547011057

T. S. Eliot

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land

EAN 8596547011057

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

II. A GAME OF CHESS

III. THE FIRE SERMON

IV. DEATH BY WATER

V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID

NOTES ON THE WASTE LAND

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"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis

vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:

Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω."

For Ezra Pound

il miglior fabbro

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

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April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10

And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,

My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled,

And I was frightened. He said, Marie,

Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I read,