Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-6
“Can’t he add anything?”: Reading the Notes....Pages 7-15
Epigraph....Pages 17-21
Dedication....Pages 23-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-31
“Son of man”: Ezekiel....Pages 33-36
“And the dead tree gives no shelter”: Ecclesiastes....Pages 37-39
“Unreal City”: Baudelaire’s “The Seven Old Men”....Pages 41-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-46
“My nerves are bad to-night”: Tom and Vivien Eliot as the Chess Players....Pages 47-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-57
“By the waters of Leman”: Eliot and Lake Leman....Pages 59-61
“But at my back from time to time I hear”: Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”....Pages 63-65
“Et O ces voix d’enfants, chantant dans la coupole!”: Verlaine’s “Parsifal”....Pages 67-68
“Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea”: Sappho....Pages 69-72
“Burning burning burning burning”: The Buddha’s Fire Sermon....Pages 73-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
“Phlebas the Phoenician”: Eliot’s “Dans le Restaurant”....Pages 79-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-90
Headnote....Pages 91-94
“Datta: what have we given?”: The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad....Pages 95-99
“Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie”: Nerval’s “El Desdichado”....Pages 101-103
“Shantih shantih shantih”: Upanishads....Pages 77-77
Back Matter....Pages 105-108
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