The Waste Land and Other Poems : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780451526847 : 0451526848 : 01 Feb 1998 : This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot\'s most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, \"The Waste Land\", which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech linked in a fragmented narrative, Eliot recreates the chaos and disillusionment of Europe in the aftermath of World War I.