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Why Did Eliot Write The Waste Land? | Eliot's Personal Collapse

When The Waste Land was published in 1922, T.S. Eliot changed the course of literary history. Hailed as the most influential English-language poem of the twentieth century, this masterpiece of modernist poetry was born not only from a shattered world—but from Eliot’s own psychological collapse. In this in-depth lecture, we explore the rich historical, philosophical, and emotional contexts behind The Waste Land. What drove Eliot to write this fragmented, haunting masterpiece? And how did a personal breakdown become the catalyst for one of the greatest poems ever written? In this lecture, I consider: Eliot’s nervous breakdown and psychiatric treatment in Switzerland 0:00-4:50 Vivienne Haigh-Wood and her echoes in “A Game of Chess” 4:50-9:40 Ezra Pound and Shaping TWL 9:40-13:06 Eliot's Crisis as Microcosm for the World Crisis: 13:06-16:35 The rise of modernism 16:35-1832 #TheWasteLand #Poetry #Modernism #LiteraryHistory #CloseReading #ClassicLiterature #ModernistPoetry #EzraPound