The Waste Land

poem by T.S. Eliot
Book written_work Q581458
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Summary

The Waste Land is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.39% of written work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,975 views/month, #25 of 6,426).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: T. S. Eliot[3]
  • Instance of: narrative poetry[4]
  • Publisher: Horace Liveright[5]
  • Genre: poetry[6]
  • Language of work or name: English[7]
  • Country of origin: United States[8], England[9]
  • Publication date: 1922[10]
  • Has edition or translation: The Waste Land[11], The Waste Land (iPad edition)[12], Joutomaa[13]
  • Dedicated to: Ezra Pound[14]
  • Inspired by: Ulysses[15], From Ritual to Romance[16]
  • Described at URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land-56d227a99ddeb[17]
  • Title: The Waste Land[18]
  • First line: April is the cruellest month, breeding[19]
  • Last line: Shantih shantih shantih[20]
  • Copyright status: public domain[21]
  • Form of creative work: poem[22]

Why It Matters

The Waste Land has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . Joutomaa. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Joutomaa. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Joutomaa. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Joutomaa. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved . poetryfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . lrb.co.uk. Retrieved . lrb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . lrb.co.uk. Retrieved . lrb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bookbrainz work id → 46ae4d34-17d3-437d-aed8-272ffeda052f
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  2. 3d ago · InventaireBot bot · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fy', '
    Open library id → OL1142292W
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  3. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → the-waste-land
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: the-waste-land, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289968823|the waste land (#289968823)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  4. 8w ago · HombreDHojalata · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → The waste land(1922)Eliot Boni.djvu
    Inspired by → Ulysses, From Ritual to Romance
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: The waste land(1922)Eliot Boni.djvu"
  5. 13w ago · Valtaisa varpunen · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has edition or translation → The Waste Land, The Waste Land (iPad edition), Joutomaa
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has edition or translation: Joutomaa"
  6. 22w ago · InventaireBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright status → public domain
    Country of origin → —
    Country of origin → United States, England
    Publication date → —
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Librarything work id: 14880749, add claims: P1085 Edit on behalf of acct:004c0bd9ea5f4a64862674b92fe9c13b@inventaire.io"
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