The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound

T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot

ISBN 10: 0156948702 / ISBN 13: 9780156948708

Published by Harvest / HBJ Book, N Y, 1971

About this Item

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Light wear to cover. 150 pages. Keywords: Poem poetry, Manuscript, Handwritten Notes, Notations, Biographical Study, Modern Literature, Editing, Disillusionment.

Seller Inventory # 180087

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
• Publisher: Harvest / HBJ Book, N Y
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156948702
• ISBN 13: 9780156948708
• Binding: Oversize Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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 Eliot’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 St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.