Published in 1922, The Waste Land is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, ‘The Waste Land’ is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry. This audiobook also contains some of Eliot’s other poems, including ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and ‘Journey of the Magi’. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.