the sources
Eliot himself cites
(and the number key to Figure 2)
are as follows
:
1. Poems (Gre. --6), Sappho
2. Upanishads (San. --6)
3. Aeneid (Lat. 1), Virgil
4. Metamorphoses (Lat. 1), Ovid
5. Pervigilium Veneris (Lat. 2)
6. Bible (Lat. 4)
7. Confessions (Lat. 4), Augustine
8. Nibelungenlied (Ger. 12)
9. Divine Comedy (Ita. 14), Dante
10. Spanish Tragedy (Eng. 16), Kyd
11. Prothalamian (Eng. 16), Spenser
12. Parliament of Bees (Eng. 17), Day
13. To His Coy Mistress (Eng. 17), Marvell
14. Women Beware Women (Eng. 17), Middleton
15. Paradise Lost (Eng. 17), Milton
16. The Tempest (Eng. 17), Shakespeare
17. White Devil (Eng. 17), Webster
18. The Vicar of Wakefield (Eng. 18), Goldsmith
19. Fleurs du Mal (Fre. 19), Baudelaire
20. The Golden Bough (Eng. 19), Frazer
21. Elizabeth (Eng. 19), Froude
22. Les Chimères (Fre. 19), Nerval
23. Parsifal (Fre. 19), Verlaine
24. Blick ins Chaos (Ger. 20), Hesse
25. Buddhism in Translation (Eng. 20), Warren
26. From Ritual to Romance (Eng. 20), Weston
27. The Waste Land (Eng. 20), Eliot
The Waste Land
by
T. S. Eliot
( 01922 )
audio, read by Eliot :
audio, read by Alec Guinness :
text :
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321
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