467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
The History of Literature
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Sordello by Arthur Power Joyce
Sordello was criticized in its own time as being dense, thick and impenetrable. The poem was rediscovered by Swinburne and then by the moderns including Ezra Pound who was a fan. Jed Rasoula: T.S. Elliot's Wasteland is an expression of our time when we are trying to lift off the accumulated weight of the ages which was stifling original thought.
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