Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Author A. Booth

Publisher Palgrave MacMillan

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Author

A. Booth

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

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Copyright

2015

ISBN13

9781137482846

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Permissions.
A Note on the Text.
Abbreviations.
How to Use This Book.
Introduction 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.
Epigraph “And as for the Sibyl, I Saw Her with My Own Eyes”: Petronius’s Satyricon.
Dedication “il Miglior Fabbro”: Dante’s Purgatorio.
The Burial of the Dead.
1: Line 20 “Son of Man”: Ezekiel.
2: Line 23 “And the Dead Tree Gives No Shelter”: Ecclesiastes.
3: Line 31 “Frisch Weht Der Wind”: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
4: Line 48 “(Those are Pearls That Were His Eyes)”: Shakespeare’s Tempest.
5: Line 60 “Unreal City”: Baudelaire’s “The Seven Old Men”.
6: Line 63 “I Had Not Thought Death Had Undone So Many”: Dante’s Inferno.
7: Line 64 “Sighs, Short and Infrequent, Were Exhaled”: Dante’s Inferno.
8: Line 74 “O Keep the Dog Far Hence, That’s Friend to Men”: Webster’s White Devil.
9: Line 76 “You! Hypocrite Lecteur!—Mon Semblable,—Mon Frère”: Baudelaire’s Preface to Fleurs du Mal.
A Game of Chess.
10: Line 77 “The Chair She Sat In, Like a Burnished Throne”: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
11: Line 92 “laquearia”: Virgil’s Aeneid.
12: Line 98 “sylvan Scene”: Milton’s Paradise Lost.
13: Line 99 “The Change
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