T.S. Eliot’s mind-bending, language-blending masterpiece, first published in the October 1922 issue of The Criterion and in book form two months later. A watershed text in twentieth-century poetry, the poem has been conceived as a retort to the stripped-down simplicity of the Imagists, though Eliot...
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