The Waste Land
(TS Eliot)
read by Alec Guinness
-The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and the mantra in the Sanskrit language "
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Timings for the segments:
0:06 I. The Burial of the Dead
4:54 II. A Game of Chess
10:11 III. The Fire Sermon
17:33 IV. Death by Water
18:10 V. What the Thunder Said
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