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\nUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,LOS ANGELES  \nCopyright ◎2001 by W.W.Norton &Company,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPrinted in the United States of America.First Edition.  \nThe text of this book is composed in Electra with the display set in Bernhard Mod-en.Composition by PennSet,Inc.Manufacturing by Maple Vail Book Group.Bookdesign by Antonina Krass.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nEliot,T.S.(Thormas Stearns),1888-1965.  \nThe waste land :authoritative text,contexts,criticism/T.S.Eliot;edited byMichael North.  \np.cm.—(A Norton critical edition)Includes bibliographical references(p.).  \nISBN 0-393-97499-5(pbk.)  \n1.Eliot,T.S.(Thomas Stearns),1888-1965.Waste land.I.North,Michael,  \n1951-II.Title.  \nPS3509.L43 W32000821'.912--dc2100-056643  \nW.W.Norton &Company,Inc.,500 Fifth Aventte,New York,NY.10110www.wwnorton.com  \nW.W.Norton&Company Ltd,Castle House,75/76 Wells Street,London WIT 3QT  \n234567890  \nixxi  \nPrefaceA Note on the Text  \nThe Text of The Waste Land  \n121  \nEliot's Notes to The Waste Land  \nContexts  \nSOURCES  \nSir James G.FrazerThe King of the Wood29The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation30The Killing of the Divine King31[Adonis and Christ]32  \nJessie L.Weston[The Grail Legend]35[The Grail Quest]36[The Tarot Pack]37The Fisher King38[The Perilous Chapel]38[Conclusion]39  \nAldous Huxley·[Madame Sosostris]  \n40  \nCharles Baudelaire  \n42  \nTo the Reader  \n43  \nThe Seven Old Men  \nJohn Webster·[Cornelia's Dirge from The White Devil]Ovid  \n45  \n[The Blinding of Tiresias]46[The Story of Tereus and Philomela]46Gene Buck and Herman Ruby·That Shakespearian Rag51Gotama Buddha·The Fire-Sermon54Edmund Spenser·From Prothalamion55Oliver Goldsmith·[Olivia's Song from The Vicar ofWakefield]57  \nJames Anthony Froude·[Elizabeth and Leicester]57St.Augustine·From Confessions58From The King James Bible·[The Road to Emmaus]59  \nSir Ernest Shackleton·[The Extra Man]60Herman Hesse·[The Downfall of Europc]60From 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Wilson·The Poetry of DrouthElinor Wylie·Mr.Eliot's Slug-HornConrad Aiken·An Anatomy of MelancholyTime·Shantih,Shantih,Shantih  \n140  \n145  \n148  \n153  \nTimes Literary Supplement·[A Zig-Zag of Allusion]Charles Powell·[So Much Waste Paper]  \n153  \n156  \nGorham Munson·The Esotericism of T.S.EliotMalcolm Cowley·[The Dilemma of The Waste Land]Ralph Ellison·[The Waste Land and Jazz]  \n156  \n163  \n166  \nTHE NEW CRITICISM  \n167  \nJohn Crowe Ransom·Waste Lands  \nI.A.Richards·The Poetry of T.S.Eliot  \n170  \nF.R.Leavis·[The Significance of theModern Waste Land]  \n173  \n185  \nCleanth Brooks,Jr.·The Waste Land:An Analysis  \nCONTENTS  \nDelmore Schwartz·T.S.Eliot as theInternational Hero210  \nRECONSIDERATIONS AND NEW READINGS  \nDenis Donoghue·The Word within a Word216Robert Langbaum·The Walking Dead230Marianne Thormählen·[The City in The Waste Land235  \nA.D.Moody·A Cure for a Crisis of Civilisation?240Ronald Bush·Unknown 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