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The Waste Land - Wikipedia
The Waste Land - Wikipedia
History
Background
Eliot in 1923
Publication
Initial reception
Contents
Eliot originally
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poem He Do the Police
in Different Voices,[87] and in the original
manuscripts the first two sections of the
poem appear under this title.[88] This phrase is
taken from Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual
Friend, in which the widow Betty Higden says
of her adopted foundling son Sloppy "You
mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful
reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in
different voices."[87] In the end, the title Eliot
chose was The Waste Land. In his first note to
the poem he attributes the title to Jessie
Weston's book on the Grail legend, From Ritual
to Romance.[89]
Structure
Notes
Style
Post-war disillusionment
Religion
Christianity
Hinduism
Influence
Parodies
See also
1922 in poetry
Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual
Talent"
References
Notes
Citations
Cited works
External links
(https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321) The
Waste Land (https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/
1321) at Project Gutenberg
The Waste Land published in The Criterion
(October 1922) at Internet Archive
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