![]() ![]() ![]() It's woven out of many sources, and there's an elaborate irony to the way he uses footnotes to explain his references. The great irony of this poem's life is that it's become a monument of Western civilization or modern poetry, but it was intended by Eliot as an anti-monument in a way. It’s an anti-monument that’s become a monument. Here, Esty explains his seven things to know about “The Waste Land” today. His most recent book is The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits. ![]() He’s been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We asked Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, what we should know about “The Waste Land” and its place in the culture after a century.Įsty specializes in 20th-century British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures, and also explores modernism, critical theory, and the history and theory of the novel. The poem was considered radical when it was published in the fall of 1922, following the first World War and a global pandemic, and was recently called “the most important poem of the 20th century” by Literary Hub. ![]()
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