The waste land : a biography of a poem

"A century after its publication in 1922, T.S. Eliot's masterpiece The Waste Land remains one of the most influential and yet most mysterious works ever written. Presenting a mosaic of historical fragments, diaries, dynamic literary criticism, and illuminating new research, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the cultural and personal trauma that forged the poem through the lives of its protagonists--of Ezra Pound, who edited it; of Vivien Eliot, who sus...