ELIOT, T. S.

The Waste Land.

London: R Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS POEM in the magazine The Criterion. [1]-[104], Octavo. The poem appears on pp. 50-64. Published October, 1922. First Edition, First Printing of the poem but without the notes which appeared in the first book appearance two months later. Gallup C135.First appearance of perhaps the most influential twentieth-century poem, preceding the first edition in book form by two months. Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in the editing of the poem, commented that the arrival of The Waste Land on the literary scene was "about enough… to make the rest of us shut up shop". Eliot founded The Criterion with the financial help of Lady Rothermere, shrewdly selecting his best poem for the first issue, and intending to provide a literary forum for the great British and European modernists. Eliot disowned any particular program for the magazine, although allowing that it represented a "tendency toward something which, for want of a better name, we may call classicism." Paper wrappers, printed in red and black. The cover is darkened and the spine has been neatly reinforced with tape. Some chipping at margins. Overall, a respectable copy of a delicate printing. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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