Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot · Modernism · Poetry / criticism
Modernism · Poetry
The Waste Land
by T. S. Eliot. A collage of voices, myths, and quotations portrays postwar civilization as fractured yet haunted by renewal.
- Date
- 1922
- Origin
- United States / Britain
- Era
- Modernism
- Genre
- Poetry
- Difficulty
- Extremely challenging
- Length
- Short
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
A collage of voices, myths, and quotations portrays postwar civilization as fractured yet haunted by renewal.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of great books / bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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