With its publication in 1922, The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot (arguably the single most influential long-form poem of the twentieth century), Eliot's reputation began to grow to near-fabled proportions.
By 1929, and for the next three decades, he was the dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world.
But it might not have always been so.
Early drafts of The Waste Land, originally entitled, âHe Do the Police in Different Voices,â were a sprawling chaotic mess. To say they needed the guiding hand of an editor of genius would be an understatement.
Fortunately for Eliot, Ezra Pound was that kind of editor.
The final creationâthe incomparable poem we know as The Waste Land, reflects almost as much Poundâs vision of Eliotâs poem as of Eliotâs himself.
Master and Protege: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot - Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot & Philip Dossick
With its publication in 1922, The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot (arguably the single most influential long-form poem of the twentieth century), Eliot's reputation began to grow to near-fabled proportions.
By 1929, and for the next three decades, he was the dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world.
But it might not have always been so.
Early drafts of The Waste Land, originally entitled, âHe Do the Police in Different Voices,â were a sprawling chaotic mess. To say they needed the guiding hand of an editor of genius would be an understatement.
Fortunately for Eliot, Ezra Pound was that kind of editor.
The final creationâthe incomparable poem we know as The Waste Land, reflects almost as much Poundâs vision of Eliotâs poem as of Eliotâs himself.