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Number 267/1000 of the "second edition" which is technically a second impression using the same type set as the first printing, with the error "mount in" on page 41 uncorrected. Small octavo. 64 pages. Publisher's black cloth with gilt title. Slight fading to spine and small tear with loss to the top edge of pp. 33/34 otherwise very good throughout. T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is considered one of the most important poems of the 20th century, as well as a modernist masterpiece. A dramatic monologue that changes speakers, locations, and times throughout, "The Waste Land" draws on a dizzying array of literary, musical, historical, and popular cultural allusions in order to present the terror, futility, and alienation of modern life in the wake of World War I. - LitCharts.

The Waste Land is a 434-line modernist poem by T.S. Eliot, first published in 1922. It is one of the most important poems of the 20th century.