The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)

from tloeffler

I like Eliot's work in general, and I was not aware that The Waste Land was a World War I poem, which gave it a different perspective than I had the first time I read it.

from elfortunawe

~~~On First Reading~~~ There's not much to be said about these poems on first reading. For the most part they're too cryptic to be properly understood right off the bat, with one exception being "Journey of the Magi". "Journey of the Magi" is a monologue, assumedly from one of the famous Magi fro...

from regularguy5mb

I've always loved Eliot's style. His poems have this magnificent lyrical quality to them. Favorites from this collection include "The Hollow Men" and "Ash-Wednesday," and of course "The Waste Land." I like that the editor included T.S. Eliot's original notes on "The Waste Land." It was nice to se...

from P_S_Patrick

This is a short collection of poems of ten poems by TS Eliot, including his longer works "The Wasteland", "The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and "Ash Wednesday", as well as some shorter works. Some of these (such as Prufrock and Landscapes) are transparent enough on the first read through. Ho...

from JudyCroome

8:16 pm 23 February 2015 The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot I've read (and listened to) this collection of poems half a dozen times. THE WASTE LAND is, without a doubt, still my favourite. It's hard to understand, pompous at times and so dense with allusions to other works I lose track o...