Titlebook: Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up; Allyson Booth Book 2015 Allyson Booth 2015 death.design.poem.water.British and Irish Literature

electrolyte

反应

Volatile-Oils

”You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère”: Baudelaire’s Preface to , the last line both of Eliot’s Part I and (minus the English “You!”) of Baudelaire’s Preface, a poem called “Au Lecteur [To the Reader].” Eliot thus positions “The Burial of the Dead,” at least momentarily, as Preface to ..

nocturnal

没花的是打扰

贫穷地活

“Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem”: Weston’s , (CP 70) by Jessie L. Weston’s . (1920). A scholarly book that is difficult to read because Weston assumes that she is writing to an audience familiar with a whole intellectual terrain, . argues the evolution suggested by its title—a narrative progression that links ancient fertility rituals to medi

negotiable

索赔

Epigraph a famous prophet reduced to casual sideshow status where she is trifled with by children: “And as for the Sibyl, I saw her with my own eyes at Cumae, suspended in a bottle,’ Trimalchio informs his guests, and when boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what is your wish?’, she would reply, ’I want to die’” (Petro

单调性

Dedicationcialist looking OK; and with a damn good poem (19 pages) in his suitcase; same finished up here [Paris]; …About enough, Eliot’s poem, to make the rest of us shut up shop” (Valerie Eliot xxii). The finishing up process Pound refers to was collaborative: ten days or so of marking up drafts. Critic Law

Basilar-Artery

“Son of man”: Ezekielountains. After this move through the calendar year, lines 19–42 traverse the geography of fertility—from desert to garden. The poem moves from a landscape where “roots that clutch” hang on for dear life in a heap of “stony rubbish” (WL 19, 20), then travels from that scene of dead trees and dry roc