ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote “The waste land”?
A
Langston Hues
B
William Faulkner
C
Wallace Stevens
D
T.S. Elliot
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Waste Land, a long poem by the American writer T S Eliot, is one of the most famous works of literary modernism.

Detailed explanation-2: -T. S. Eliot’s landmark modernist poem The Waste Land was published in 1922. Divided into five sections, the poem explores life in London in the aftermath of the First World War, although its various landscapes include the desert and the ocean as well as the bustling metropolis.

Detailed explanation-3: -TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land in this Margate shelter.

Detailed explanation-4: -T.S. Eliot was an American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is best known as a leader of the Modernist movement in poetry and as the author of such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943).

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