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The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

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The Waste Land
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Publisher: Horace Liveright
Number of pages: 64

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The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Eliot's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of contemporary British society.

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