The waste land and other poems : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / T. S. Eliot ; edited by Michael North, University of California, Los Angeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, author.

Contributor:

North, Michael, 1951- editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Waste land.

Eliot, T. S.

Waste land (Eliot, T. S.).

Physical Description:

xxvi, 345 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]

Summary:

"This second Norton Critical Edition of The Waste Land and Other Poems features T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, alongside his defining earlier collections. Heavy with contemporary allusions and searing imagery, Eliot's five-part poem The Waste Land (1922) has equally impressed and befuddled scholars. His earlier works Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) and Poems (1920) speak to his refinement as an artist and provide context to The Waste Land's reception. The background material in this edition explains the various sources and ideas Eliot referenced in his poetry, most heavily featuring sources for The Waste Land. The "Criticism" section offers a plethora of reviews and essays that depicts the controversy surrounding Eliot as a writer during the early parts of his career, in addition to essays exploring various themes represented in his poetry. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Prufrock And Other Observations

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a Lady

Preludes

Rhapsody on a Windy Night

Morning at the Window

The Boston Evening Transcript

Aunt Helen

Cousin Nancy

Mr. Apollinax

Hysteria

Conversation Galante

La Figlia Che Piange

From Poems (1920)

Gerontion

Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar

Sweeney Erect

A Cooking Egg

The Hippopotamus

Whispers of Immortality

Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

Sweeney Among the Nightingales

The Waste Land

I. The Burial of the Dead

II. A Game of Chess

III. The Fire Sermon

IV. Death by Water

V. What the Thunder Said

Eliot's Notes to The Waste Land

Contexts

Sources of the Waste Land / Sir James G. Frazer

The King of the Wood

The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

The Killing of the Divine King

[Adonis and Christ] / Jessie L. Weston

[The Grail Legend]

[The Grail Quest]

[The Tarot Pack]

The Fisher King

[The Perilous Chapel]

[Conclusion] / Aldous Huxley

[Madame Sosostris] / Charles Baudelaire

To the Reader

The Seven Old Men / John Webster

[Cornelia's Dirge from The White Devil]

Ovid: [The Blinding of Tiresias]

[The Story of Tereus and Philomela] / Herman Ruby

That Shakespearian Rag / Gotama Buddha

The Fire-Sermon / Edmund Spenser

From Prothalamion / Oliver Goldsmith

[Olivia's Song from The Vicar of Wakefield] / James Anthony Froude

Elizabeth and Leicester] / St. Augustine

From Confessions

From The King James Bible

[The Road to Emmaus] / Sir Ernest Shackleton

[The Extra Man] / Hermann Hesse

[The Downfall of Europe]

From Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The Three Great Disciplines

From Pervigilium Veneris / Thomas Kyd

From The Spanish Tragedie

Composition And Publication Of The Waste Land / Lyndall Gordon

[The Composition of The Waste Land] / Lawrence Rainey

[Publishing The Waste Land]

Eliot On The Waste Land

[The Disillusionment of a Generation]

[A Piece of Rhythmical Grumbling]

[On the Waste Land Notes]

[Allusions to Dante]

Eliot: Essays And London Letters

Reflections on Vers Libre

From Reflections on Contemporary Poetry

From Tradition and the Individual Talent

Hamlet and His Problems

From The Metaphysical Poets

Ulysses, Order, and Myth

The True Church and the Nineteen Churches

[The Rite of Spring and The Golden Bough]

Criticism

Reviews And First Reactions

Arthur Waugh

From The New Poetry / Ezra Pound

[Review of Prufock and Other Observations] / May Sinclair

Pmfrock and Other Observations: A Criticism / Virginia Woolf

Is This Poetry?

[Eliot Chants The Waste Land]

Times Literary Supplement

[Mr. Eliot's Poem] / Edmund Wilson

The Poetry of Drouth / Elinor Wylie

Mr. Eliot's Slug-Horn / Conrad Aiken

An Anatomy of Melancholy / Malcolm Cowley

[The Dilemma of The Waste Land] / Ralph Ellison

[The Waste Land and Jazz]

Twentieth-Century Criticism / Robert Graves

["Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"] / Hugh Kenner

Prufrock of St. Louis / L. A. Richards

From The Poetry of T. S. Eliot / F. R. Leavis

[The Significance of the Modern Waste Land] / Cleanth Brooks Jr.

The Waste Land: An Analysis / Delmore Schwartz

T. S. Eliot as the International Hero / Maud Ellmann

A Sphinx without a Secret / Tim Armstrong

[Eliot's Waste Paper]

Reconsiderations And New Readings / Helen Vcndler

[Inventing Prufrock] / Marjorie Perloff

[Rereading Eliot's "Gerontion"] / David Trotter

From T. S. Eliot and Cinei.ia / Juan A. Suarez

[The Gramophone in The Waste Land] / Sarah Cole

[Violence in The Waste Land].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393679434

0393679438

OCLC:

1261767930