{"product_id":"what-the-thunder-said-9780691225791","title":"What the Thunder Said","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich cultural history of the creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen T. S. Eliot published \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e in 1922, it put the thirty-four-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. “But,” as Jed Rasula writes, “\u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern.” In \u003ci\u003eWhat the Thunder Said\u003c\/i\u003e, Rasula tells the story of how \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom its famous opening, “April is the cruellest month, breeding \/ Lilacs out of the dead land,” to its closing Sanskrit mantra, “Shantih shantih shantih,” \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land \u003c\/i\u003ecombined singular imagery, experimental technique, and dense allusions, boldly fulfilling Ezra Pound’s injunction to “make it new.” \u003ci\u003eWhat the Thunder Said\u003c\/i\u003e traces the origins, reception, and enduring influence of the poem, from its roots in Wagnerism and French Symbolism to the way its strangely beguiling music continues to inspire readers. Along the way, we learn about Eliot’s storied circle, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell, and about poets like Mina Loy and Marianne Moore, whose innovations have proven as consequential as those of the “men of 1914.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Thunder Said\u003c\/i\u003e recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century’s most influential poem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jed Rasula","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960397828214,"sku":"9780691225791","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6fb292d7-f95c-4656-8c88-7bbc10670d70.jpg?v=1767797010","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/what-the-thunder-said-9780691225791","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}