The Waste Land and Other Writings - Rilegato

Eliot, T. S.

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ISBN 10: 0679641017 ISBN 13: 9780679641018

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2001

Riassunto

Long regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism, a treasury of some of T. S. Elliot's most important early poems combines poetic elements from diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech to recreate the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of WWI and is accompanied by selections from Eliot's acclaimed literary criticism. 12,500 first printing.

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T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Widely honored for his poetry, criticism, essays and plays, he was a leader of the modernist movement and is today read throughout the world.

Mary Karr is the author of the bestselling The Liar's Club and Cherry. She lives in Syracuse, New York.

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Portrait of a Lady

Thou hast committed
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
The Jew of Malta.

I
Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
You have the scene arrange itself as it will seem to do
With I have saved this afternoon for you;
And four wax candles in the darkened room,
Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,
An atmosphere of Juliet’s tomb
Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid.
We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.

So intimate, this Chopin, that I think his soul
Should be resurrected only among friends
Some two or three, who will not touch the bloom
That is rubbed and questioned in the concert room.

And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.

You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,
[For indeed I do not love it . . . you knew? you are not blind!
How keen you are!]
To find a friend who has these qualities,
Who has, and gives
Those qualities upon which friendship lives.
How much it means that I say this to you

Without these friendships life, what cauchemar!
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite false note.

Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the monuments,
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679641017
• ISBN 13: 9780679641018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 234