内容简介
AlsoincludesPrufrockandOtherObservations,Poems(1920),andTheSacredWoodIntroductionbyMaryKarrFirstpublishedin1922,“TheWasteLand,”T.S.Eliot’smasterpiece,isnotonlyoneofthekeyworksofmodernismbutalsooneofthegreatestpoeticachievementsofthetwentiethcentury.Arichlyallusivepilgrimageofspiritualandpsychologicaltormentandredemption,Eliot’spoemexertedarevolutionaryinfluenceonhiscontemporaries,summoningforthapotentnewpoeticlanguage.AsKennethRexrothwrote,Eliot“articulatedthemindofanepochinwordsthatseemeditsmostnaturalexpression.”Ascommandingashisverse,Eliot’scriticismalsotransformedtwentieth-centuryletters,andthisModernLibraryeditionincludesaselectionofEliot’smostimportantessays.
作者简介
MaryKarrisanaward-winningpoet,essayist,andmemoirist.Sheisalsotheauthoroffourbooksofpoetry,Abacus,TheDevil’sTour,ViperRum,andSinnersWelcome,andthreememoirs,TheLiar’sClub,Cherry,andLit.