'The Waste Land Revisited' provides an exciting new reading of the great poem of literary modernism.
It points out that T.S. Eliot's failure to edit, control or structure the poetry he secreted left Ezra Pound with a major role in the making of the poem.
As a result, theoretical ideas like 'The Death of the Author' and 'Intertextuality' have a particularly decisive part to play in enabling a full understanding of a work, which, in turn, also illuminates them.
All students of modern writing will profit from reading this new book as it considers the relation of poetry to theory, modernism to postmodernism, history to literature, French poetry to English, and the surprising relevance of issues of gender, class and race to actual poetic effects.
The book also takes stock of the personal, social and historical contexts for the genesis of the world-famous poem.
