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|\n| By Helen Williams General Editor,David Daiches   |\n| Clarifies plot,characterization,symbolism,style.  \u003Cbr>Critical literary appraisal combines scholarship with readability.   |\n\nThe Waste Land / Wiliams  \n$1.00  \nBarron's Studies in Literature  \nBarron'sEducationalSeries, Inc.  \n静  \nmagart micch1974  \nWith the Compliments of  \nBARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES,INC.113 CROSSWAYS PARK DRIVE,WOODBURY,NEW YORK 11797  \nSTUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE No.37  \nGeneral Editor  \nDavid Daiches  \nProfessor of English in the School of English andAmerican Studies,University of Sussex  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2012  \nhttp://archive.org/details/lccn  \n73093512  \n# T.S.ELIOT:THE WASTE LAND\n\nbyHELEN WILLIAMS  \nLecturer in English LiteratureUniversity of Edinburgh  \nBARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES,INC.wOODBURY,NEW YORK  \nCHELEN WILLIAMS I968First published I968  \nAll inquiries should be addressed to  \nBarron's Educational Series,Inc.113 Crossways Park DriveWoodbury,New York 11797  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card No.73-93512  \n# General Preface\n\nIt has been increasingly clear in recent years that what both theadvanced sixth-former and the university student need most by way ofhelp in their literary studies are close critical analyses and evaluations ofindividual works.Generalisations about periods or authors,general chatabout the Augustan Age or the Romantic Movement,have their uses;but often they provide merely the illusion of knowledge and under-standing of literature.All too often students come up to the universityunder the impression that what is required of them in their Englishliterature courses is the referring of particular works to the appropriategeneralisations about the writer or his period.Without taking up theanti-historical position of some of the American ‘New Critics',we cannevertheless recognise the need for critical studies that concentrate onthe work of literary art rather than on its historical background orcultural environment.  \nThe present series is therefore designed to provide studies of individualplays,novels and groups of poems and essays,which are known to bewidely studied in sixth forms and in universities.The emphasis is onclarification and evaluation;biographical and historical facts,while theymay of course be referred to as helpful to an understanding of particularelements in a writer's work,will be subordinated to critical discussion.What kind of work is this?What exactly goes on here?How good is thework and why?These are questions which each writer willtry to answer.  \nDAVID DAICHES  \n# LIST OF ELIOT's CRITICAL ESSAYSMENTIONED IN THE TEXT\n\nINDEX  \nINTRODUCTORY7  \n## I.PATTERN AS FORM\n\n9  \n# 2.THE WEB OF ALLUSION\n\n4  \n7779  \nIt needs more than T.S.Eliot's own belief that every generation mustmake a poem in its own image to justify adding to the number of inter-pretations of The Waste Land.We may,however,agrce with the writerin Times Literary Supplement for 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