That Area of Human Life where Men Exist without a Guiding Faith
(A most difficult ‘fragmented’ poem to analyze). Written in 1922, Thomas Stearns Eliot won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1948. The Waste Land, well-known for its ground-breaking 20th century poetry of dense and allusion-heavy poems, is also the most widely talked about poets of literary history.... Sign in to see full entry.