Reading The waste land from the bottom up / Allyson Booth
- Author:
- Booth, Allyson
- Published:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 273 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: "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 -- Epigraph "And as for the Sibyl, I saw her with my own eyes": Petronius's Satyricon -- Dedication "il miglior fabbro": Dante's Purgatorio -- pt. I The Burial of the Dead -- Line 20 "Son of man": Ezekiel -- Line 23 "And the dead tree gives no shelter": Ecclesiastes -- Line 31 "Frisch weht der Wind": Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- Line 48 "(Those are pearls that were his eyes)": Shakespeare's Tempest -- Line 60 "Unreal City": Baudelaire's "The Seven Old Men" -- Line 63 "I had not thought death had undone so many": Dante's Inferno -- Line 64 "Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled": Dante's Inferno -- Line 74 "O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men": Webster's White Devil -- Line 76 "You! hypocrite lecteur!---mon semblable,---mon frere": Baudelaire's Preface to Fleurs du Mal -- pt. II A Game of Chess -- Line 77 "The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne": Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra -- Line 92 "laquearia": Virgil's Aeneid -- Line 98 "sylvan scene": Milton's Paradise Lost -- Line 99 "The change of Philomel": Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Line 111 "My nerves are bad to-night": Tom and Vivien Eliot as the Chess Players -- Line 118 "The wind under the door": Webster's The Devil's Law Case -- Line 125 "Those are pearls that were his eyes": Shakespeare's Tempest -- Line 138 "Pressing lidless eyes": Middleton's Women Beware Women -- Line 172 "Good night, ladies": Shakespeare's Hamlet -- pt. III The Fire Sermon -- Line 176 "Sweet Thames, run softly": Spenser's Prothalamion -- Line 182 "By the waters of Leman": Eliot and Lake Leman -- Line 192 "And on the king my father's death before him": Shakespeare's Tempest -- Line 196 "But at my back from time to time I hear": Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" -- Line 197 "The sound of horns and motors": Day's Parliament of Bees -- Line 202 "Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!": Verlaine's "Parsifal" -- Line 218 "I Tiresias": Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Line 221 "Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea": Sappho -- Line 253 "When lovely woman stoops to folly": Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield -- Line 257 "This music crept by me upon the waters": Shakespeare's Tempest -- Line 266 "The river sweats": Wagner's Gotterdammerung -- Line 279 "Elizabeth and Leicester": Froude's The Reign of Elizabeth -- Line 293 "Highbury bore me": Dante's Purgatorio -- Line 307 "To Carthage then I came": Saint Augustine's Confessions -- Line 308 "Burning burning burning burning": The Buddha's Fire Sermon -- Line 309 "O Lord Thou pluckest me out": Saint Augustine's Confessions -- pt. IV Death by Water -- Line 312 "Phlebas the Phoenician": Eliot's "Dans le Restaurant" -- pt. V What the Thunder Said -- Headnote The Book of Luke; Weston's From Ritual to Romance -- Line 360 "Who is the third who walks always beside you?": Shackleton's South -- Lines 367--77 "What is that sound high in the air": Hermann Hesse's Blick ins Chaos -- Line 402 "Datta: what have we given?": The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad -- Line 408 "Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider": Webster's White Devil -- Line 412 Dayadhvam: I have heard the key": Dante's Inferno, Bradley's Appearance and Reality -- Line 417 "Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus": Shakespeare's Coriolanus -- Line 425 "Fishing, with the arid plain behind me": Weston's From Ritual to Romance -- Line 428 "Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina": Dante's Purgatorio -- Line 429 "Quando fiam uti chelidon": Pervigilium Veneris -- Line 430 "Le Prince d'Aquitaine a la tour abolie": Nerval's "El Desdichado" -- Line 432 "Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe": Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy -- Line 434 "Shantih shantih shantih": Upanishads.
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- ISBN:
- 9781137488381 hardcover alkaline paper
1137488387 hardcover alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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