The Waste Land: A Drama of Images

  • Armin Paul Frank

Abstract

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

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Textual Cohesion Spring Rain Demonstrative Pronoun Modern Poetry Collect Poem 
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Notes

  1. 1.
    P. Hobsbaum, ‘Eliot, Whitman and American Tradition’, Journal of American Studies 3 (1969), 239–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  2. 2.
    T. S. Eliot, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, ( London: Faber & Faber, 1964 ), 75.Google Scholar
  3. 3.
    St. John Perse, Anabasis: A Poem, trans. T. S. Eliot (London: Faber & Faber, 1931), 3rd. edn. 1959, 50.Google Scholar
  4. 5.
    T. S. Eliot, On Poetry and Poets ( London: Faber & Faber, 1957 ), 32–3.Google Scholar
  5. 7.
    See Grover Smith, T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956 ), 86.Google Scholar
  6. 8.
    On similarities between Sweeney and WL, see Grover Smith, The Waste Land, ( London: Allen & Unwin, 1983 ), 62–3.Google Scholar
  7. 11.
    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.Google Scholar
  8. 12.
    See Nancy D. Hargrove, Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot, ( Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1978 ), 73–80.Google Scholar
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    T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909–1962, ( London: Faber & Faber, 1963 ), 84.Google Scholar
  10. 19.
    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.Google Scholar
  11. 28.
    T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays ( London: Faber & Faber, 1951 ), 485.Google Scholar

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