<p>April is the cruellest month, breeding<br>Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing<br>Memory and desire, stirring<br>Dull roots with spring rain . . .<br><br>Published in 1922, <b>The Waste Land</b> was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as we enter a new century.</p>