T.S Eliot
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"There are no poetic 'subjects' in this book, no conventional nightingales and daffodils, and there is no acceptance, either, of the traditional rules of meter and rhyme. As one discerning critic has said: 'We have here, in short, poetry that expresses freely a modern sensibility, the ways of feeling and the modes of experience of one fully alive in his own age'.
"The main poem in this collection is 'The Waste Land' (1922) to which Mr. Eliot has...
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English
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The most famous, beautiful, and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth century, read by the most famous poet. Historic recordings of the cream of Eliot's poetry. It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these recordings are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterizes and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.
The Waste Land caught the imagination of...
