Urdu book recently published ‘The Waste Land’ in translation literary world was under the spell of T.S. Eliot

The Urdu book recently published under the title The Waste Land reminds me of times when the literary world was under the spell of T.S. Eliot. The spell was two-fold as Eliot had been acknowledged as a great critic as well as a great poet. Perhaps he was the most potent voice of the age he lived in. As far as Urdu is concerned, no modern poet could resist Eliot’s influence and almost every critic saw wisdom in referring to his work in order to appear convincing in the arguments presented. In

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