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a photograph of the front cover of the book, which advertises Eliot as the winner of the Dial prize

The First Edition(s) of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Posted by: Patrick Hastings

1922 was a pivotal year in the modernist literary movement, highlighted by the first edition publications of both James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s groundbreaking poem “The Waste Land.” In Eliot’s negotiations over publication rights to the poem, he utilized and tested an emerging network of modernist institutions.