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June 07, 2011 by Schenkenberg

From The Guardian: “Faber launches The Waste Land app.”  This iPad edition, a collaboration with Touch Press, includes a filmed performance synchronised to the text; complete audio readings of the poem by, among others, T. S. Eliot himself; interactive notes; video perspectives/commentary from Seamus Heaney and Jeanette Winterson; and original manuscript pages, “revealing how the poem took shape under Ezra Pound’s editing.”

That last line reminded me that in graduate school in the late 1990s, one of the books assigned to me was “The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound.” It’ll be interesting to see if and how iPad editions like this one make their way into the classroom.

June 07, 2011 /Schenkenberg
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