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The Waste Land and Other Poems, written by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, T. S. Eliot, is a brilliant collection of his intense poems. Summary of the Book The Waste Land poem, penned by Eliot, has been considered as a modern literary masterpiece. This book brings you the masterpiece as well as some of the early poems written by him. These poems are compiled with inspiration draw from diverse sources, with an edge of common speech and culture connected in a fragmented narrative. Most of Eliot’s writings reflected the chaos and disenchantment created in Europe post First World War. Apart from The Waste Land, some of the other poems included in this book are Spleen, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Death of St. Narcissus, Preludes, The Hippopotamus, Gerontion, and Sweeny among the Nightingales. A must read for poetry lovers. About T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in the year 1888. He was an American born British poet, playwright, essayist, and publisher. Eliot started to write poetry from the young age of fourteen. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Harvard College. He then served as a Philosophy assistant at the institution, before moving to Paris in the year 1910 to study at the Sorbonne. He again returned to Harvard to study Indian Philosophy and Sanskrit from 1911 to 1914. In the year 1948, Eliot was awarded the most prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature for his pioneering contribution to modern poetry. The same year, he was awarded the Order of Merit by King George VI. Eliot had thirteen honorary doctorates to his name, from some of the most renowned institutions like Harvard University, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. He passed away in the year 1965 in London. Some of the most notable works of T. S. Eliot are Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, The Hollow Men, Portrait of a Lady, The Journey of Magi, and The Sacred Wood.