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 Review...  . 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