T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) | Analysis and Centennial Tribute

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1948 was awarded to T. S. Eliot. This is a detailed analysis of his poem The Waste Land, on the occasion of the centennial of its publication in book form. According to some critics and historians, 1922 marks the birth of modernism, primarily because of the publication of The Waste Land and James Joyce's Ulysses. Virginia Woolf's brilliant novel Mrs. Dalloway appeared the same year. You may find my centennial tribute to Ulysses here:    • James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) | Book R...  . Contents:

00:02 – Approaching The Waste Land
01:09 – Publication history
01:48 – My approach
02:26 – On heroes, antiheroes, characters, and central figures
04:07 – The Waste Land's main source, with a key remark by Eliot
05:21 – My first encounter with The Waste Land, and my editions
08:44 – The Borges Connection
11:00 – Title(s), epigraph and dedication
13:34 – Part I: The Burial of the Dead
24:49 – Part II: A Game of Chess
30:30 – Part III: The Fire Sermon
39:10 – Part IV: Death by Water
39:48 – Part V: What the Thunder Said
50:23 – Concluding remarks