The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1974 - Poetry - 149 pages
Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliot's first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound.
 

Contents

The Fire Sermon
22
Death by Water
54
What the Thunder Said
71
Song
98
The Death of the Duchess
105
I am the Resurrection and the Life
111
Elegy
117
Those are pearls that were his eyes See
123
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THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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