The waste land
TS Eliot’s poem about post-war disillusionment was cut by nearly half by Pound, who cajoled its author into rewriting other parts. The result, The Waste Land, was perhaps the greatest poem of the 20th Century.
Not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane - Marcus Aurelius
TS Eliot’s poem about post-war disillusionment was cut by nearly half by Pound, who cajoled its author into rewriting other parts. The result, The Waste Land, was perhaps the greatest poem of the 20th Century.
