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467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)

The History of Literature

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What Is the Impact of the Wasteland?

The poem was published in 1922 and went around the world very quickly. Elliot gave people what he would characterize as the stink of the post-war era. The wasteland is a poem that basically says, wake up and pay attention because you can't let anything go.

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