The anthology brings together various schools of thought—including New Criticism and Myth Criticism—to analyze the following:
In his introductory essay, Harold Bloom offers a distinctively "Bloomian" reading of the poem: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Cr...
: Critics in this volume view the poem's non-linear structure as a reflection of the "fragmented modern consciousness" following World War I . Harold Bloom - Amazon.com
: He interprets it as a "Romantic crisis poem" that merely pretends to be an exercise in Christian irony. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Bloom's Modern Cr...
: Some sections examine how Ezra Pound's extensive editing shaped the final version of the poem. The Waste Land: T. S. Eliot, Harold Bloom - Amazon.com