The Wasteland

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Classic poem by T.S. Eliot written in 1922, The Waste Land is in part personal, the voices projected universal. Eliot later denied that he had large cultural problems in mind, but, nevertheless, in The Waste Land he diagnosed the malaise of his generation and indeed of Western civilization in the 20th century.

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