Britannica
Sources used in this answer
Where was The Waste Land first published?
Created from Britannica articles
using AI.
AI can make mistakes, so verify using Britannica articles.
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, the seminal 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot, was first published in London in the literary journal The Criterion in October 1922.1
Following its initial appearance, the poem was published in New York City in The Dial in November 1922, before eventually being released in book form with Eliot’s own footnotes.1