: Essays delve into Eliot's use of the Fisher King and Grail legends as frameworks for a spiritually barren modern world.
: Bloom argues that despite its European setting and allusions, the poem is essentially an American self-elegy masking as a mythological romance. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Cr...
In his introductory essay, Harold Bloom offers a distinctively "Bloomian" reading of the poem: : Essays delve into Eliot's use of the
: Some sections examine how Ezra Pound's extensive editing shaped the final version of the poem. The Waste Land: T. S. Eliot, Harold Bloom - Amazon.com The Waste Land: T
The anthology brings together various schools of thought—including New Criticism and Myth Criticism—to analyze the following:
: Critics in this volume view the poem's non-linear structure as a reflection of the "fragmented modern consciousness" following World War I .