What the Thunder Said av Jed Rasula

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On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot¿s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land¿s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influenceWhen T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. ¿But,¿ as Jed Rasula writes, ¿The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern.¿ In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story of how The Waste Land changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music. From its famous opening, ¿April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land,¿ to its closing Sanskrit mantra, ¿Shantih shantih shantih,¿ The Waste Land combined singular