ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Waste Land, long poem by T.S. Eliot, published in 1922, first in London in The Criterion (October), next in New York City in The Dial (November), and finally in book form, with footnotes by Eliot.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was first published in October 1922 in the British journal The Criterion, then a month later in the American journal The Dial, before appearing in book form, firstly, in America by Boni and Liverlight in 1922, and then in 1923 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot’s The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Ash-Wednesday” is the first long poem written by Eliot, after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism.