“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.
