On February 15, 2011, it was announced that Faber & Faber, the British publishers of the Wasteland by T. S. Eliot are collaborating with Apple on creating a version of this poem for the ipad.
What poems will be "saved" for the digital age? Why?
Several hypertext sites for the Wasteland exist--many of them put up by "fans" rather than scholars. Here's one that, despite its advertising banners, appears to be pretty reliable. What is it about this poem that continues to intrigue? Is it the puzzle-like text, or is it the underlying grid of cultural myths, themes, and stories--the quest for meaning, the intertwined nature of death and rebirth, the reference at the end to different religious names for the sacred--that continues to fascinate readers?
Many sites offer audio clips of Eliot reading the Wasteland. Here's one of them.
Above is the cover of the first publication of The Wasteland in England, by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf set the type herself. (The poem was published three times in the U.S. before it was published in England.)
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