ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot’s The Waste Land first appeared in print in The Criterion, a quarterly British literary magazine founded and edited by Eliot. The poem’s final form was heavily influenced by Ezra Pound, who made extensive cuts and revisions to Eliot’s manuscript.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to many critics, it is Ezra Pound’s editing of the manuscript of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land that contributed to the poem’s becoming a masterpiece of modern poetry. Moreover, this collaboration constituted the climax of their astonishing series of close interactions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The men who influenced him at Harvard were George Santayana, the philosopher and poet, and the critic Irving Babbitt. From Babbitt he derived an anti-Romantic attitude that, amplified by his later reading of British philosophers F.H. Bradley and T.E. Hulme, lasted through his life.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pound promoted, and also occasionally helped to shape, the work of such widely different poets and novelists as William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pound’s contributions to modernism are varied, from his early advocacy of the publication of Joyce’s prose to his extensive editing and paring of Eliot’s The Waste Land to his own manifestos and aesthetic pronouncements.