T.S. Eliot is one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. His unique and innovative evocations of the folly and poetry of humanity helped reshape modern literature, with poems such as 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' included here, and most notably, the title poem, 'The Waste Land,' his ground breaking masterpiece of postwar decay and redemption. Since its publication in 1922, The Waste Land and Other Poems has be come one of the most widely studied texts in English literature.
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