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One of the twentieth century's most powerful-and controversial-works, The Waste Land was published in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot's masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing The Waste Land, seven of them never before published in book form. The volume is enriched with period photographs and a London map of locations mentioned in the poem. Featured in the book are Lawrence Rainey's groundbreaking account of how The Waste Land came to be composed; a history of the reactions of admirers and critics; and full annotations to the poem and Eliot's essays. The edition transforms our understanding of one of the greatest modernist writers and the magnificent poem that became a landmark in literary history.

‘I confess that reading his essays seems to me to have enlarged my understanding of the Shakespearean pattern, which, after all, is quitethe main thing.’ T.S. Eliot Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, The Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G.Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, The Wheel of Fire was Knight’s first venture in the field — his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare. G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985). Literary critic, playwright, poet