Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 “Swallowed up in the one great tragedy”: World War I and The Waste Land
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   Chapter 2 “Can’t he add anything?”: Reading the Notes
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   Chapter 3 “Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem”: Weston’s From Ritual to Romance
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   Chapter 4 “To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general”: Frazer’s The Golden Bough
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   Chapter 5 Epigraph
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   Chapter 6 Dedication
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   Chapter 7 “Son of man”: Ezekiel
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   Chapter 8 “And the dead tree gives no shelter”: Ecclesiastes
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    Chapter 9 “ Frisch weht der Wind ”: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
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    Chapter 10 “(Those are pearls that were his eyes)”: Shakespeare’s Tempest
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    Chapter 11 “Unreal City”: Baudelaire’s “The Seven Old Men”
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    Chapter 12 “I had not thought death had undone so many”: Dante’s Inferno
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    Chapter 13 “Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled”: Dante’s Inferno
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    Chapter 14 ”O keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men”: Webster’s White Devil
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    Chapter 15 ”You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère”: Baudelaire’s Preface to Fleurs du Mal
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    Chapter 16 “The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne”: Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
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    Chapter 17 “laquearia”: Virgil’s Aeneid
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    Chapter 18 ”sylvan scene”: Milton’s Paradise Lost
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    Chapter 19 “The change of Philomel”: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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    Chapter 20 “My nerves are bad to-night”: Tom and Vivien Eliot as the Chess Players
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    Chapter 21 “The wind under the door”: Webster’s The Devil’s Law Case
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    Chapter 22 “Those are pearls that were his eyes”: Shakespeare’s Tempest
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    Chapter 23 “Pressing lidless eyes”: Middleton’s Women Beware Women
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    Chapter 24 “Good night, ladies”: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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    Chapter 25 “Sweet Thames, run softly”: Spenser’s Prothalamion
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    Chapter 26 “By the waters of Leman”: Eliot and Lake Leman
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    Chapter 27 “And on the king my father’s death before him”: Shakespeare’s Tempest
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    Chapter 28 “But at my back from time to time I hear”: Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”
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    Chapter 29 “The sound of horns and motors”: Day’s Parliament of Bees
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    Chapter 30 “ Et O ces voix d’enfants, chantant dans la coupole! ”: Verlaine’s “Parsifal”
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    Chapter 31 “I Tiresias”: Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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    Chapter 32 “Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea”: Sappho
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    Chapter 33 “When lovely woman stoops to folly”: Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield
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    Chapter 34 “This music crept by me upon the waters”: Shakespeare’s Tempest
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    Chapter 35 “The river sweats”: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
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    Chapter 36 “Elizabeth and Leicester”: Froude’s The Reign of Elizabeth
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    Chapter 37 “Highbury bore me”: Dante’s Purgatorio
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    Chapter 38 “To Carthage then I came”: Saint Augustine’s Confessions
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    Chapter 39 “Burning burning burning burning”: The Buddha’s Fire Sermon
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    Chapter 40 “O Lord Thou pluckest me out”: Saint Augustine’s Confessions
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    Chapter 41 “Phlebas the Phoenician”: Eliot’s “Dans le Restaurant”
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    Chapter 42 Headnote
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    Chapter 43 “Who is the third who walks always beside you?”: Shackleton’s South
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    Chapter 44 “What is that sound high in the air”: Hermann Hesse’s Blick ins Chaos
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    Chapter 45 “ Datta : what have we given?”: The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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    Chapter 46 “Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider”: Webster’s White Devil
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    Chapter 47 “ Dayadhvam : I have heard the key”: Dante’s Inferno , Bradley’s Appearance and Reality
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    Chapter 48 “Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus”: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
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    Chapter 49 “Fishing, with the arid plain behind me”: Weston’s From Ritual to Romance
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    Chapter 50 “ Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina ”: Dante’s Purgatorio
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    Chapter 51 “ Quando fiam uti chelidon ”: Pervigilium Veneris
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    Chapter 52 “ Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie ”: Nerval’s “El Desdichado”
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    Chapter 53 “Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe”: Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy
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    Chapter 54 “Shantih shantih shantih”: Upanishads