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Edition 41 (1948)

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T. S. Eliot てぃーえす えりおっと Winner

A landmark modernist poem that layers myth, religion, and literary allusion to portray a fractured postwar world. Its broken voices and dense references explore loss, renewal, and spiritual desolation.

Beginning with "April is the cruellest month," the poem traces loss, renewal, and spiritual desolation.

96 pages
modernismfragmentationloss and renewalmyth and religionurban alienation