T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) was written in the wake of World War I, supposedly the “war to end all wars.” But what Eliot saw in the peace that followed was pain and disunity, fragmentation and false hope. He presented the world as “a heap of broken images.” Critic Edmund Wilson, perhaps the first […]
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- Last updated on March 25, 2021