The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a lengthy poem, spanning nearly 434 lines, and narrates a modernist story about the Fisher King and the Holy Grail. A landmark of Modernist Poetry from its initial publication in 1922, it enhanced the already considerable reputation of its author, T.S.Eliot. An Anglo-American himself, Eliot became one of the most well-known writers on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.