The Waste Land : A Facsimile and Transcript Of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations Of Ezra Pound: Edited By Valerie Eliot

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965)

ISBN 10: 0571096352 / ISBN 13: 9780571096350

Published by London : Faber and Faber, 1971

About this Item

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxxii, 149p: facsims; 29cm. Notes: Preliminaries omitted. Subject: English poetry. Poetry 20th century. Facsimile. 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Waste Land : A Facsimile and Transcript Of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations Of Ezra Pound: Edited By Valerie Eliot
• Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571096352
• ISBN 13: 9780571096350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Facsimile edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 3 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was much longer than the first published version, was edited through handwritten notes by Ezra Pound, by Eliotâ s first wife, and by Eliot himself. Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot; Preface by Ezra Pound.

About the Author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.