![]() ![]() (For example, World War I ended in 1918, the influenza epidemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide from 1918 to 1919, and Britain was experiencing great labor unrest.) Eliot’s personal health had never been robust, and his wife Vivienne experienced a number of breakdowns and engaged in at least one affair, with philosopher Bertrand Russell. His account focuses on the years 1918 to 1922, what was happening in the lives of both men, and general events happening in the world that helped shape The Waste Land. Hollis centers The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem on two men, T.S. Literary modernism was being born, and Joyce, Woolf, and Eliot had much to do with it. Eliot published that poem, The Waste Land. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Beautiful and the Damned. Bookstore in Paris published Ulysses by James Joyce. ![]() The year 1922 was an amazing year for authors and literary creations. Matthew Hollis explains how Eliot’s “The Waste Land” came to beīritish poet and writer Matthew Hollis has told the story of a poem, arguably the most significant poem of the 20th century. ![]()
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