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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot working on his play The Cocktail Party in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, 1948. The letters of the alphabet in his diagram represent characters in the play. The Greek letters represent characters yet to be invented.
The Waste Land, a foundational work of Modernism by T.S. Eliot, was published in 1922.12
The poem was first released in London in the journal The Criterion in October 1922, followed by a publication in New York City in The Dial in November 1922. It was subsequently published in book form, which included footnotes provided by the author.2