T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and The Waste Land

“Prufrock” is as fresh today as when it was first written, and, for better or worse, The Waste Land remains the celebrated poem of its age, a text that may be venerated, despised, rejected or enjoyed, but not ignored. C J Ackerley, author of this superior study guide, is its ideal interpreter, as a celebrated scholar of Modernist and Postmodernist writing.

Part 1: Before The Waste Land. Eliot's Life and Works; Reading Eliot; The Music of Ideas

Part 2: “˜The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “˜Prufrock” From “˜Prufrock” to The Waste Land

Part 3: The Waste Land: Preliminaries. The Role of Ezra Pound; The Dramatic Consciousness; The Mythic Consciousness; The Epigraph

Part 4: A Commentary on The Waste Land. The Burial of the Dead; A Game of Chess; The Fire Sermon; Death by Water; What the Thunder Said

Part 5: Bibliography

Part 6: Hyperlinked texts — a valuable compendium of the key works Eliot quotes or alludes to in The Waste Land.