The Day x Connell Guides - The Connell Guide to T.S Eliot's The Wasteland

Seamus Perry's elegant book is a critical tour-de-force. Perry's distinction as a reader of poetry pervades his many fine phrases and sentences as he brings out the amplitude of the poem s ambition with clarity, wit and nuance. This is a book to go to first, and many times thereafter, in thinking about and responding to Eliot's masterpiece of troubling but suggestive implication, shifting voices, and intricately orchestrated lyricism. - Michael O Neill, Professor of English, Durham University