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T. S. Eliot is best classified as a:

  1. High Modernist poet-critic
  2. Romantic lyricist
  3. Augustan satirist
  4. Restoration dramatist
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Correct answer: A. High Modernist poet-critic

1. Eliot is named in the modernist content area. 2. His criticism (Tradition and the Individual Talent) is foundational. 3. His verse (The Waste Land, Four Quartets) defines High Modernism. _Source: Coverage brief — Modernist canon — "Modernism — T.S. Eliot"_

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Who wrote 'The Waste Land' (1922)?

  1. Ezra Pound
  2. T. S. Eliot
  3. Virginia Woolf
  4. James Joyce
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Correct answer: B. T. S. Eliot

1. Eliot's Waste Land is paradigmatic Modernism. 2. Pound helped edit it. 3. It appeared in 1922 with Ulysses. _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Modern + Postmodern: T.S. Eliot"_

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