The Waste Land and Other Poems 《荒原》及其他诗歌

　　This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's mostimportant early peoms, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece,The Waste Land, which has long been regarded as one of thefundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements frommany diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speechlinked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreated the chaos anddisillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of WWI.
　　* The Waste Land is a modernist literary masterpiece.
　　* Contains a number of early poems, including Spleen, The Deathof St. Narcissus, The Love Song of J. Prufrock, Preludes,Gerontion, The Hippopotmaus, and Sweeny Among theNightingales.
　　* T.S Eliot is the winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature,and is one of America's greatest poets.
　　* Edited and with an Introduction by Helen Vendler, a foremostscholar of moderism at Harvard University who writes regularly forthe New Yorker and The New Republic.
　　* Vendler is also the author of books on other essential poets,including W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, George Herbert,and the forthcoming The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnete.

　　This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's mostimportant early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece,"The Waste Land", which has long been regarded as one of thefundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements frommany diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speechlinked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreates the chaos anddisillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of World War I.