The Waste Land: A Norton Critical Edition
The text of Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot’s own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.\ For ease of reading, this Norton Critical Edition presents The Waste Land as it first appeared in the American edition (Boni & Liveright), with Eliot’s notes at the end. "Contexts" provides readers with invaluable materials on The Waste Land’s sources, composition, and publication history. "Criticism" traces the...
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The text of Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as by Eliot’s own knotty notes, some of which require annotation themselves.Library JournalWritten when Eliot was working as a bank clerk and heavily edited by his friend Ezra Pound, 1922's The Waste Land could probably take the prize as the most important English-language poem of the 20th century. This 75th-anniversary edition includes the full text plus notes and an afterword by scholar/editor Christopher Ricks.
PrefaceixA Note on the TextxiThe Text of The Waste Land1Eliot's Notes to The Waste Land21ContextsSourcesThe King of the Wood29The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation30The Killing of the Divine King31[Adonis and Christ]32[The Grail Legend]35[The Grail Quest]36[The Tarot Pack]37The Fisher King38[The Perilous Chapel]38[Conclusion]39[Madame Sosostris]40To the Reader42The Seven Old Men43[Cornelia's Dirge from The White Devil]45Ovid[The Blinding of Tiresias]46[The Story of Tereus and Philomela]46That Shakespearian Rag51The Fire-Sermon54From Prothalamion55[Olivia's Song from The Vicar of Wakefield]57[Elizabeth and Leicester]57From Confessions58From The King James Bible [The Road to Emmaus]59[The Extra Man]60[The Downfall of Europe]60From Brihadaranyaka Upanishad The Three Great Disciplines62From Pervigilium Veneris63From The Spanish Tragedie64Composition and Publication[The Composition of The Waste Land]67The Waste Land: Paris 192272The Price of Modernism: Publishing The Waste Land89Eliot on the Waste Land[The Disillusionment of a Generation]112[A Piece of Rhythmical Grumbling]112[On the Waste Land Notes]112[Allusions to Dante]113Eliot: Essays and London LettersFrom Tradition and the Individual Talent114From Hamlet120From The Metaphysical Poets121Ulysses, Order, and Myth128The True Church and the Nineteen Churches131[The Rite of Spring and The Golden Bough]131CriticismReviews and First Reactions[Eliot Chants The Waste Land]137Times Literary Supplement [Mr. Eliot's Poem]137T. S. Eliot138The Poetry of Drouth140Mr. Eliot's Slug-Horn145An Anatomy of Melancholy148Time Shantih, Shantih, Shantih153Times Literary Supplement [A Zig-Zag of Allusion]153[So Much Waste Paper]156The Esotericism of T. S. Eliot156[The Dilemma of The Waste Land]163[The Waste Land and Jazz]166The New CriticismWaste Lands167The Poetry of T. S. Eliot170[The Significance of the Modern Waste Land]173The Waste Land: An Analysis185T. S. Eliot as the International Hero210Reconsiderations and New ReadingsThe Word within a Word216The Walking Dead230[The City in The Waste Land]235A Cure for a Crisis of Civilisation?240Unknown Terror and Mystery246A Sphinx without a Secret258Corpse, Monument, Hypocrite Lecteur: Text and Transference in the Reception of The Waste Land275Eliot's Waste Paper286T. S. Eliot: A Chronology293Selected Bibliography297
\ Library JournalWritten when Eliot was working as a bank clerk and heavily edited by his friend Ezra Pound, 1922's The Waste Land could probably take the prize as the most important English-language poem of the 20th century. This 75th-anniversary edition includes the full text plus notes and an afterword by scholar/editor Christopher Ricks.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsPrints the first American edition (Boni & Liveright) of Eliot's most important work, accompanied by the editor's detailed annotations. Eliot's own notoriously inscrutable notes, placed at the end, are also annotated. The abundant explanatory material includes background on the poem's sources, composition, and publication history as well as 25 critical reviews and essays. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
