What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern - Paperback
by Jed Rasula
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691225791ISBN-10:691225796UPC:9780691225791Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Poetry, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.67 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC2QHPFTDF
What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
A rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691225791ISBN-10:691225796UPC:9780691225791Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Poetry, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.67 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC2QHPFTDF
Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. He is the author of nine scholarly books and three poetry collections and the coeditor of two anthologies. His recent books include Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century and History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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