The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose

Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land includes as a bonus all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of cited locations, groundbreaking information on the origins of the work, and full annotations, the volume is itself a landmark in literary history. "More than any previous editor, Rainey provides the reader with every resource that might help explain the genesis and significance of the poem. . . . The most imaginative and useful edition of The Waste Land ever published.”--Adam Kirsch, New Criterion "For the student or for anyone who wants to get the maximum amount of information out of a foundational modernist work, this is the best available edition.”--Publishers Weekly