I first read The Waste Land in high school without understanding much of it, but it left a big impression. It felt like the end of an era, one in which educati

I first read The Waste Land in high school without understanding much of it, but it left a big impression. It felt like the end of an era, one in which education was still rooted in the classical tradition (could someone today so casually quote Ovid in a footnote in the original latin, without even attempting a translation?)