T.S. Eliot: The Waste LandNick Selby Columbia University Press, 2001 - 186 pages Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of exper |
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