kristy_k 's review for:

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

4.0

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I have read some of these poems before (Prufrock, The Wasteland) and I enjoyed discovering others I had not heard of. My favorites were La Figlia Che Piange, Gerontion and A Cooking Egg. I did not give each poem the same scrutiny I had to the ones previously read (no school assignment means no ten hour research project), but I do not think that detracted from the experience of reading Eliot. Admittedly I did not understand every poem in here; however, one of the great things about this edition is that it had plenty of endnotes to help you decipher them. Furthermore, the introduction gave great insight to T.S. Eliot and his works and I felt that my overall comprehension was greatly increased due to this.