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Reading The Waste Land from the bottom up

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1137482834

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1137482842

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Reading The Waste Land from the bottom up

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First Statement of Responsibility

Allyson Booth.

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First edition

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New York, NY

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Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

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(xiv, 273 pages)

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A Dog Loping after a Frisbee --;"Swallowed up in the one great tragedy": World War I and the Waste Land --;"Can't he add anything?": Reading the Notes --;"Miss Weston's book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem": Weston's From Ritual to Romance --;"To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general": Frazer's The Golden Bough --;"And as for the Sibyl, I saw her with my own eyes": Petronius's Satyricon --;"il miglior fabbro": Dante's Purgatorio --;pt. 1. The Burial of the Dead --;"Son of man": Ezekiel --;"And the dead tree gives no shelter": Ecclesiastes --;"Frisch weht der Wind": Wagner's Tristan und Isolde --;"(Those are pearls that were his eyes)": Shakespeare's Tempest --;"Unreal City": Baudelaire's "The Seven Old Men" --;"I had not thought death had undone so many": Dante's Inferno --;"Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhalted": Dante's Inferno --;"O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men": Webster's White Devil --;"You! hypocrite lecteur! --;mon semblable, --;mon frere": Baudelaire's Preface to Fleurs du Mal --;pt. 2. A Game of Chess --;"The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne": Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra --;"laquearia": Virgil's Aeneid --;"sylvan scene": Milton's Paradise Lost --;"The change of Philomel": Ovid's Metamorphoses --;"My nerves are bad to-night": Tom and Vivien Eliot as the Chess Players --;"The wind under the door": Webster's The Devil's Law Case --;"Those are pearls that were his eyes": Shakespeare's Tempest --;"Pressing lidless eyes": Middleton's Women Beware Women --;"Good night, ladies": Shakespeare's Hamlet --;pt. 3. The Fire Sermon --;"Sweet Thames, run softly": Spenser's Prothalamion --;"By the waters of Leman": Eliot and Lake Leman --;"And on the king my father's death before him": Shakespeare's Tempest --;"But at my back from time to time I hear": Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" --;"The sound of horns and motors": Day's Parliament of Bees --;"Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole": Verlaine's "Parsifal" --;"I Tireias": Ovid's Metamorphoses --;"Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea": Sappho --;"When lovely woman stoops to folly": Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield --;"This music crept by me upon the waters": Shakespeare's Tempest --;"The river sweats": Wagner's Gotterdammerung --;"Elizabeth and Leicester": Froude's The Reign of Elizabeth --;"Highbury bore me": Dante's Purgatorio --;"To Carthage then I came": Saint Augustine's Confessions --;"Burning burning burning burning": The Buddha's Fire Sermon --;"O Lord Thou pluckest me out": Saint Augustine's Confessions --;pt. 4. Death by Water --;"Phlebas the Phoenician": Eliot's "Dans le Restaurant" --;pt. 5. What the Thunder Said --;The Book of Luke; Weston's From Ritual to Romance --;"Who is the third who walks always beside you?": Shackleton's South --;"What is that sound high in the air": Hermann Hesse's Blick ins Chaos --;"Datta: what have we given?" The Brihadaranyaka Unpanished --;"Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider": Webster's White Devil --;Dayadhvam: I have heard the key": Dante's Inferno, Bradley's Appearance and Reality --;"Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus": Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land, Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.

Eliot, T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns), -- 1888-1965. -- Waste land.

Literary studies: poetry & poets.

Poetry.

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Allyson Booth.

Allyson Booth

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