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T. S. Eliot Hypertext Project

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Title: “The Waste Land”

R The Waste Land

According to Eliot, the title was suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance, a work of literary criticism exploring the pagan and Christian roots of the Grail legend. See also Eliot's own note, below.

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discussion of the title →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
Eliot's Note to the title →Title of “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar”Title of "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" linguistic analysis The syntactic parallelism of the title is striking, and in that particularly the presence of a colon. The syntactic structures of the title's two constituents are exactly the same -…Click for the full annotation →
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