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tregina's review against another edition
4.0
I will freely admit that I admire Eliot's work more than I enjoy it, but I enjoy his poetry more than I enjoy his plays, and I enjoy (if enjoy can be said to be the right word) The Waste Land more than most other poetry, so it alone boosts the rating. Though that said, the supplementary materials in the book also give it a boost; I often don't read supplementary materials, preferring to get to the meat of it, but these were insightful and illuminating and I particularly appreciate the contemporary reactions to Eliot's writings.
beachybookstack's review against another edition
3.0
I hope you realize, potential reader, that this is 50% Wasteland end notes. Also, some poems are in French or have random sentences in French. I live in California, I took high school Spanish. I skipped all the random French, if it had been Spanish I could have read it. 4 stars would have been for translations.
Anyways, some of the poems are more enjoyable than others. I quite like the Hippopotamus poem, and the section of The Wasteland about Fire.
I'm not a poetry reader, so this was a nice foray into trying something new. Worth it, I believe.
Anyways, some of the poems are more enjoyable than others. I quite like the Hippopotamus poem, and the section of The Wasteland about Fire.
I'm not a poetry reader, so this was a nice foray into trying something new. Worth it, I believe.
icmcmx's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
futurama1979's review against another edition
4.0
i found this collection so delightful. moving from "Prufrock" in 1917 to "Poems" in '20 and finally "the Waste Land" in '22, you really see Eliot's themes mature and evolve. 'Lovesong' as well as 'Gerontion' and of course 'the Waste Land' really clicked in to me as favourites, although the whole collection carried weight. there were a few in french, which i searched out translations for, but i think they're missing something i would have gotten could i read in the original french.
the way Eliot tackles themes like love and death change as the years spanned in this collection go by; i found that interesting to keep on the pulse of. to me, the best lines in the collection were these, from a piece out of the "Poems 1920" segment:
i have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch
how should i use them for your closer contact?
the way Eliot tackles themes like love and death change as the years spanned in this collection go by; i found that interesting to keep on the pulse of. to me, the best lines in the collection were these, from a piece out of the "Poems 1920" segment:
i have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch
how should i use them for your closer contact?
oak_55's review against another edition
terrible annotations included by yours truly
witherskeleton's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0