The Waste Land | The Literary Impact
In the following essay, Torrens discusses the history of Eliot’s poem and its literary impact.
A bombshell burst upon the world of modern poetry 75 years ago this November in the pages of the New York literary journal The Dial—T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” The author had published this outpouring in England a month earlier in his own magazine, The Criterion; and in December, Boni & Liveright was to bring it out in book form, with the famous footnotes to fill out empty pages. A corporation lawyer in New York, John Quinn, put up $2,000 for The Dial prize of that year, an astonishing sum that relieved the author of the burden of medical and other...
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