Together with James Joyce's equally groundbreaking experimental novel "Ulysses," which appeared at the same moment, "The Waste Land" seemed to epitomize the radical new brand of art and literature that would come to be known as modernism; as Eliot's friend Ezra Pound put it, the poem felt like "the justification of our modern experiment since 1900."
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The book even provides some important new evidence that should put to rest the longstanding debate over whether Eliot was "really" antisemitic or not - most notably, a string of stomach-churning remarks in the newly uncovered letters to Hale.
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