T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was one of the fathers of modernism and a defining voice in English-language poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Paul Muldoon is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, The Word on the Street. He is the poetry editor of The New Yorker and the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
"We know of no other modern poet who can more adequately and
movingly reveal to us the inextricable tangle of the sordid and the
beautiful that make up life."
*Times Literary Supplement*
"The Waste Land is unquestionably important, unquestionably
brilliant…The poem must be taken—most invitingly offers itself—as a
brilliant and kaleidoscopic confusion; as a series of sharp,
discrete, slightly related perceptions and feelings, dramatically
and lyrically presented, and violently juxtaposed…It shimmers, it
suggests, it gives the desired strangeness…One of the most moving
and original poems of our time."
*Conrad Aiken*
"[An achievement] of the first importance for English poetry. In it
a mind fully alive in the age compels a poetic triumph."
*F. R. Leavis*
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