I happen to love literature. It’s okay—I love the web, too.
So when the English press Faber & Faber announced recently that they were releasing an iPad app of T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, I got pretty excited. Even though, alas, I don’t own an iPad. I do, however, have a PhD with a focus in Eliot studies. I was eager to see what such a collision of technology and literary avant-garde would look like.
When the T. S. Eliot Society asked me to write a review of the app, the deal was sealed. So, if you’re interested, the review is after the jump (and will also soon be available on the Society’s website). Warning: it’s filled with the kinds of poetic allusions that Eliotics love.
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