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folie à plusieurs

(French, for the many-sided madnesses)

"You could say that here and elsewhere Shakespeare and literary tradition in general stand in for sacred texts that would offer some kind of guide to action and some source of meaning."


To expand on Professor Hammer's main points, the mythopoetic renovation Eliot enacts through the force of Tiresias is a move forward, though not too far, from the relentless tropification that the Imagists sought to make the norm.

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I collect throughout this site annotations and creative inspirations from a variety of sources that treat directly with Eliot's annotations of his own work, not to mention a myriad of outside annotations as well. Below, find the complete breakdown of works I've drawn from in creating this resource, if not explicitly linked in specific posts elsewhere. Anderson, Tyler E. "Examining Early and Recent Criticism of The Waste Land: A Reassessment." (2010). University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Danis, George. “The World of Eliot’s Waste Land”. WR: Journal of the Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Issue 4 (2011-2012). Boston University Press. Frank, Joseph. “Spatial Form in Modern Literature: An Essay in Two Parts”. The Sewanee Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Spring, 1945), pp. 221-240. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.  Kaiser, Jo Ellen Green. “Disciplining The Waste Land, or How to Lead Critics into Temptation.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 44, no. 1, 1998, pp. 82...