Reviews for Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

The average rating for Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-14 00:00:00 Lemonica Stamps If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review. Kublai Khan: "The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems" by T. S. Eliot (Original review, 1981-05-10) It seems to me that the author of 'Prufrock' and that of the Wasteland are so different as to be un-recognisable. A look at the Wasteland reveals a lot of, to me, gratuitous classical referencing for which we might like to blame Pound and while I value its novelty (whereas Prufrock reads like Kublai Khan) the Wasteland reads like deliberate pastiche.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-28 00:00:00 Richard Del Pizzo Uncle! I measured out my life with coffee spoons in the hours, weeks, indeed months between when I first picked this up and when I subsequently set it down unfinished. It gets two stars in deference to the world of literary critics and english PhD's who call Eliot a master. I want to believe that good poetry has something to share with us. I even keep a copy of Garrison Keillor's anthology "Good Poem's For Hard Times" on my night stand, for Pete's sakes! It's there right now, see? (Ok maybe there the tv remote is sitting on top of it). But, some of those poems I understand - I think. Ole' T.S. is smarter than me and I think that's the problem here. I could get through a Lovesong for J. Alfred Prufrock well enough, but so much of The Wasteland is unintelligable to me that I found myself reading a page and setting this down. It's disgraceful - the thing can't be 75 pages and here I sit, unable to get through it. I think the last time I understood poetry was in fifth grade when I had to recite a passage from "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." Since then I've found that most poetry completely and utterly befuddles me. Well, I'm dumb. I admit it. Uncle. -m