Reading The Waste Land from the bottom up. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Allyson Booth.
• Authors: Booth, Allyson
• Other Names: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Contents: A Dog Loping after a Frisbee -- "Swallowed up in the one great tragedy": World War I and the Waste Land -- "Can't he add anything?": Reading the Notes -- "Miss Weston's book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem": Weston's From Ritual to Romance -- "To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general": Frazer's The Golden Bough -- "And as for the Sibyl, I saw her with my own eyes": Petronius's Satyricon -- "il miglior fabbro": Dante's Purgatorio -- pt. 1. The Burial of the Dead -- "Son of man": Ezekiel -- "And the dead tree gives no shelter": Ecclesiastes -- "Frisch weht der Wind": Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- "(Those are pearls that were his eyes)": Shakespeare's Tempest -- "Unreal City": Baudelaire's "The Seven Old Men" -- "I had not thought death had undone so many": Dante's Inferno -- "Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhalted": Dante's Inferno -- "O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men": Webster's White Devil -- "You! hypocrite lecteur! -- mon semblable, -- mon frere": Baudelaire's Preface to Fleurs du Mal -- pt. 2. A Game of Chess -- "The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne": Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- "laquearia": Virgil's Aeneid -- "sylvan scene": Milton's Paradise Lost -- "The change of Philomel": Ovid's Metamorphoses -- "My nerves are bad to-night": Tom and Vivien Eliot as the Chess Players -- "The wind under the door": Webster's The Devil's Law Case -- "Those are pearls that were his eyes": Shakespeare's Tempest -- "Pressing lidless eyes": Middleton's Women Beware Women -- "Good night, ladies": Shakespeare's Hamlet -- pt. 3. The Fire Sermon -- "Sweet Thames, run softly": Spenser's Prothalamion -- "By the waters of Leman": Eliot and Lake Leman -- "And on the king my father's death before him": Shakespeare's Tempest -- "But at my back from time to time I hear": Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" -- "The sound of horns and motors": Day's Parliament of Bees -- "Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole": Verlaine's "Parsifal" -- "I Tireias": Ovid's Metamorphoses -- "Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea": Sappho -- "When lovely woman stoops to folly": Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield -- "This music crept by me upon the waters": Shakespeare's Tempest -- "The river sweats": Wagner's Gotterdammerung -- "Elizabeth and Leicester": Froude's The Reign of Elizabeth -- "Highbury bore me": Dante's Purgatorio -- "To Carthage then I came": Saint Augustine's Confessions -- "Burning burning burning burning": The Buddha's Fire Sermon -- "O Lord Thou pluckest me out": Saint Augustine's Confessions -- pt. 4. Death by Water -- "Phlebas the Phoenician": Eliot's "Dans le Restaurant" -- pt. 5. What the Thunder Said -- The Book of Luke; Weston's From Ritual to Romance -- "Who is the third who walks always beside you?": Shackleton's South -- "What is that sound high in the air": Hermann Hesse's Blick ins Chaos -- "Datta: what have we given?" The Brihadaranyaka Unpanished -- "Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider": Webster's White Devil -- Dayadhvam: I have heard the key": Dante's Inferno, Bradley's Appearance and Reality -- "Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus": Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages)
• Subjects: 821/.912; Poetry; General; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Poetry; Literature: history & criticism; Literature; Literary History; Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137482846; 1137482842; 9781349695836; 1349695831; 9781137482839; 1137482834
• Related ISBNs: 9781137488381
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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