T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons

by James E. Miller Jr.

Book Overview

A major reinterpretation, T.S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons takes Eliot at his word in his reiterated statements that The Waste Land was not a "criticism of the contemporary world" but a personal "grouse against life." It is the first critical work to investigate in depth the sources of the poem in Eliot's life, with particular attention to Eliot's "Calamus"-like attachment to a French youth during Eliot's graduate year in Paris,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027371
• ISBN13: 9780271027371
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"