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The Waste Land: A Drama of Images

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T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting

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This is a commentary to invite readers to put aside all commentaries, including this one, and to (re-)read Eliot.

… and with the urgency of fifty years ago: Read him.

Ezra Pound

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  1. P. Hobsbaum, ‘Eliot, Whitman and American Tradition’, Journal of American Studies 3 (1969), 239–64.

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  2. T. S. Eliot, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, ( London: Faber & Faber, 1964 ), 75.

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  3. St. John Perse, Anabasis: A Poem, trans. T. S. Eliot (London: Faber & Faber, 1931), 3rd. edn. 1959, 50.

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  4. T. S. Eliot, On Poetry and Poets ( London: Faber & Faber, 1957 ), 32–3.

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  5. See Grover Smith, T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956 ), 86.

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  6. On similarities between Sweeney and WL, see Grover Smith, The Waste Land, ( London: Allen & Unwin, 1983 ), 62–3.

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  7. Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1967), 137; for the subsequent two quotations, see 172, 171.

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  9. T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909–1962, ( London: Faber & Faber, 1963 ), 84.

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  10. Bernard Harris, “’What music crept by me”: Shakespeare and Wagner’ in The Waste Land in Different Voices, ed. A. D. Moody, ( London: Arnold, 1974 ), 110–12.

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  11. T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays ( London: Faber & Faber, 1951 ), 485.

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  1. Armin Paul Frank
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  1. University of Alberta, Canada

    Shyamal Bagchee

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Frank, A.P. (1990). The Waste Land: A Drama of Images. In: Bagchee, S. (eds) T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10104-7_2

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