Eliot (T.S.) "The Waste Land", in The Criterion. A Quarterly Review, vol.1, no.I, pp.50-64, occasional foxing, heavier to margins, original printed wrappers, light creasing and browning to spine, light toning and creasing to yapp edges, but an excellent and very clean example overall, [Gallup C135], 8vo, R. Cobden Sanderson, October 1922.
⁂ The first appearance in print of the most important poem of the 20th century.
The Waste Land was published in 1922, the most auspicious of literary years, in the magazine founded and edited by Eliot. This issue included a plan of Dostoevsky's unwritten novel The Life of a Great Sinner (co-translated by Virginia Woolf) as well as an essay by Herman Hesse and a review of Joyce's Ulysses.
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