T. S. Eliot 
Waste Land 
75th Anniversary Edition

Eliots unique power, his understanding of interrelated beauty and squalor, freshness and despair, survives academic fashions, survives all interpretations, survives even his own dicta and formulations. He is one of the great poets.Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate and author of Singing School An exalted nightmare, one of the great poems of the 20th century. Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem (and Fall in Love with Poetry) and A Poets Glossary