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  2. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

  3. T. S. Eliot - Wikipedia

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    Wilson also pointed out some of Eliot's weaknesses as a poet. In regard to The Waste Land, Wilson admits its flaws ("its lack of structural unity"), but concluded, "I doubt whether there is a single other poem of equal length by a contemporary American which displays so high and so varied a mastery of English verse." [102]

  4. The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands - Wikipedia

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    The book derives its title from the T. S. Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust" and "Lud: A Heap of Broken Images") are named after lines in the poem.

  5. Alan Paton - Wikipedia

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    Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.

  6. Look to Windward - Wikipedia

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    Look to Windward is loosely a sequel to Consider Phlebas, Banks's first published Culture novel. Consider Phlebas took its name from the following line in the poem and dealt with the events of the Idiran-Culture War; Look to Windward deals with the results of the war on those who lived through it.

  7. How Furiosa Connects to The Wasteland - AOL

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    Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road Credit - Warner Bros. A ttentive audience members will have noticed the original hero of the Mad Max films, Max Rockatansky, in Furiosa, now in theaters.In the ...

  8. John Peter (novelist) - Wikipedia

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    He is remembered mostly widely for his 1952 essay "A New Interpretation of The Waste Land", in which he interpreted T.S. Eliot's poem as an elegy for a dead (male) friend, Jean Verdenal. At the insistence of Eliot's solicitors, it was suppressed and only republished in 1969, four years after Eliot's death.

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