The Waste Land and Other Poems
T. S. Eliot
Explore the early and middle work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century in this selection of poems. Included are "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Gerontion", "Ash Wednesday", and the title poem. Edmund Wilson wrote that "Eliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize "for his work as trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."