This book offers a detailed, comprehensive explanation of T.S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey undertaken by the same individual, initiated by the moment of ecstasy in the Hyacinth garden.

This book offers a detailed, comprehensive explanation of T.S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey undertaken by the same individual, initiated by the moment of ecstasy in the Hyacinth garden.