This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece, "The Waste Land." Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have pr[...]
In 1909, F.T. Marinetti published his incendiary "Futurist Manifesto", proclaiming 'We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!!' and 'There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!'. Intent on delivering Italy from 'its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians', the [...]