The Waste Land by T S Eliot
The
Wasteland by T.S. Eliot is one of the most famous poems of the 20th
century and is 434 lines long, divided into 5 sections: The Burial of
the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What
the Thunder Said. Considered obscure and often abstract, the poem
interweaves a number of legends and mythologies of both eastern and
western influence in a variety of voices.
Originally
published in the 1922 issue of The Criterion (a U.K. magazine which
was founded and edited by Eliot), it later appeared the subsequent
month in the Dial magazine as its first U.S. appearance. The
Wasteland first appeared in book form in 1922, published by Boni and
Liveright in New York in an edition of 1000 copies. The first 500
copies were bound in a flexible black cloth, while the remaining
copies were bound in a more traditional cloth hardcover. Both were issued in beige printed dust jackets. The first
state is noted by the appearance of a dropped letter "a" on page
41 in the word mountain; the second issue has the word misprinted as "mount in." In nice condition, the first issue might be had in a jacket for $25,000 and up.
The
first U.K. book edition was published the following year in the U.K
by Hogarth Press in an edition of 450 copies. Also of note is the
second NY edition on 1923, also published by Boni and Liveright and
highly collectible.
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The
Wasteland by T.S. Eliot is one of the most famous poems of the 20th
century and is 434 lines long, divided into 5 sections: The Burial of
the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What
the Thunder Said. Considered obscure and often abstract, the poem
interweaves a number of legends and mythologies of both eastern and
western influence in a variety of voices.
Originally
published in the 1922 issue of The Criterion (a U.K. magazine which
was founded and edited by Eliot), it later appeared the subsequent
month in the Dial magazine as its first U.S. appearance. The
Wasteland first appeared in book form in 1922, published by Boni and
Liveright in New York in an edition of 1000 copies. The first 500
copies were bound in a flexible black cloth, while the remaining
copies were bound in a more traditional cloth hardcover. Both were issued in beige printed dust jackets. The first
state is noted by the appearance of a dropped letter "a" on page
41 in the word mountain; the second issue has the word misprinted as "mount in." In nice condition, the first issue might be had in a jacket for $25,000 and up.
The
first U.K. book edition was published the following year in the U.K
by Hogarth Press in an edition of 450 copies. Also of note is the
second NY edition on 1923, also published by Boni and Liveright and
highly collectible.
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