Book description
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . .
Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of
its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which
has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came
to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He
received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
