The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line poem by T. S. Eliot. The title is often mistakenly written as The Wasteland.

Publishing history

The poem was first published, without the author's notes, in the first issue (October 1922) of The Criterion, a literary magazine started and edited by Eliot. The first appearance of the poem in the US was in the November 1922 issue of The Dial magazine (actually published in late October.) In December 1922, The Waste Land was published in the US in book form by Boni and Liveright, the first publication to print the notes. In September 1923, the Hogarth Press, a private press run by Eliot's friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf, published the first UK book edition of The Waste Land in an edition of about 450 copies, the type handset by Virginia Woolf.

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1922 - The Criterion - The Dial - 1923 - Hogarth Press - Private press - Leonard - Virginia Woolf

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