T.S.Eliot, La terra guasta: una traduzione.

The argument that The Waste Land has not been ‘our contemporary’ for decades now, while its place among the ‘modern classics’ of poetry is central to any variant of the Western canon, can hardly be refuted. Both the translation of the poem and the short essay offered here explore the cultural implications and consequences of this commonplace on the Italian understanding and rendering of the English text. Finally, the question of a Dantean echo in the title of the poem is once more addressed, in view of a reassessment of the poem’s (and the poet’s) often claimed dantismo