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S'està carregant… The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (edició 1974)de T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot (Editor), Valerie Eliot (Introducció)
Informació de l'obraThe Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound de T. S. Eliot
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When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so, because the published version of The Waste Land was considerably shorter than the original. How it was reduced and edited is clearly revealed on the manuscript through the handwritten notes of Ezra Pound, of Eliot's first wife, Vivien, and of Eliot himself. In order that this material might be widely available for study, the poet's widow Mrs Valerie Eliot prepared the present edition, in 1971, in which each page of the original manuscript was reproduced in facsimile, with a clear transcript facing pages. Mrs Eliot also included an illuminating introduction, explanatory notes and cross-references, together with the text of the first published version of The Waste Land, thus completing the evolution of the most influential poem in modern literature. To mark the centenary of the original poem, and celebrate fifty years of the facsimile, Eliot's original pages are published here in the startling vivacity of full colour for the first time. The present edition reissues, with corrections, of the text of the 1980 reprint, and includes an appendix of original materials not previously made available. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The process of crafting the poem is made clear, and that is both eye-opening and unfortunate. It becomes apparent that the original version of the poem was highly personal, expressing Eliot's disillusion and despair after living in London. Many of the references are extremely private, in the sense that they will only be understood by a close circle of friends, and there is no sign that this could turn into a work of general appeal.
The hand of Ezra Pound changes all that, redacting much of the poem in order to make it more obscure but also to give it a more general appeal. Apparently it worked, but it does lend an air of chicanery to the whole deal - trading honesty and clarity for omission and obfuscation.
So if you want to understand The Waste Land and what it is about, forget all the essays that get packed into the Norton Critical and read this instead. You may find, though, that is lessens your appreciation of both Eliot and the poem. (