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Hello in October 1922 the latest edition of London's literary magazine the criterion hit the shelves

in it was a new poem by a little-known American poet.

The poet was Thomas Stearns Elliot and the poem The Wasteland. It turned out to be among the most

influential poems ever written in English. The

wasteland found a new way to express the modern world in all its bruising

gleaming cacophony.

Edelit himself has been accused of willful obscurantism,

misanthropy and of high-minded despair at the paucity of 20th century living.

But could someone who captured modern life so well really dislike it so much?

And when he looked out at a world of radio and cinema, a radical art, Joyce,

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