Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot · Running time 0:22:52 · Poetry
Audio streams directly from the Internet Archive. Recording by LibriVox volunteers (public domain). The text is in the public domain in the USA; please check the copyright laws of your country.
About this book
The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures—the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous ph
Description from the LibriVox catalogue.
Chapters and downloads on LibriVox →
You might also like
- Waste Land (version 3)T. S. Eliot · 0:25:40
- Waste Land (version 2)T. S. Eliot · 1:52:42
- Prufrock and Other ObservationsT. S. Eliot · 00:28:52
- Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth CenturyT. S. Eliot · 01:28:23
- Poems MultilingualT. S. Eliot · 00:57:40
- EcloguesVirgil · 1:08:21
- Barbara FrietchieJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 00:13:47
- CathayErnest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound · 00:45:58