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The March 2002 update

This page contains the detailed information for the changes and additions done for the March 2002 website update. (March 31, 2002) It is a link off the 'What's New' page.

General repair:

• Fixed or removed many broken links (not all though)
• Pages for off-site topics have many more links
• Some use of Cascading Style Sheets
• Some spelling, typographical errors and bad phrasing corrected

Changes to the unframed portion of the site:

Navigation:

• A site map has been added

Rewrites:

• Big changes to the Verdenal page. Now heavy in detail, comments, citations and bibliography
• The songs page has been updated with "Red Wing" lyrics
• Vastly expanded the bibliography page and categorized the entries
• Added pages with extra information on these books:
  • Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot
  • Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot

Links to this site:

• Add a page to search for "The Waste Land" with different search engines (and their ranking of this site)
• Have a page listing other pages linking to this site

Additions to the unframed portion of the site:

Allusions:

• Line 25 - "There is shadow under this red rock"
• Line 55 - "The Hanged God"
• Line 119 - "Inferno, Canto V"
• Line 199 - "Red Wing"
• Line 279 - "Letter from de Quadra to Philip of Spain"

Commentary:

• The title - Notes on the poem's title, The Golden Bough and From Ritual to Romance
• Line 15 - "The three Maries"
• Line 17 - "Feeling free"
• Line 18 - "Marie is not elderly"
• Line 38 - Part an essay by P.K. Saha"
• Line 46 - Eliot and the Tarot
• Line 67 - Verdenal and the sound of the bells
• Line 69 - "Stetson"
• Line 74 - "Anubis, ancient Egypt's jackel-headed god of dead"
• Line 77 - William Empson on Eliot's ambiguity
• Line 138 - "Bianca remains, ... a real woman;"
• Line 209 - "The Smyrna merchant"
• Line 210 - "Currants (a moved page)"
• Line 220 - "Brings the sailor home from sea" (a moved page?)
• Line 261 - Eliot's mandolin
• Line 264 - Excerpt from Choruses from 'The Rock'
• Line 295 - "The River Girl"
• Line 309 - Eliot, Buddhisim, and anglo-catholicism"
• Part V - Eliot's treatment at Lausanne"
• Line 331 - "The Waste Land had about 30 good lines"

Miscellaneous pages:

• Title - "Early publication history" was moved here from another page
• Line 15 - Has pictures of both the young and middle-aged Marie Larisch
• Line 17 - "In the mountains"
• Line 46 - "Tarot Card Illustrations"
• Line 70 - "The battle of Mylae (260 B.C.)"
• Line 264 - "The Church of Saint Magnus Martyr (with picture)"
• Line 333 - "A prayer for Tom Eliot"
• Line 408 - "suppress everything suppressable"
• Line 429 - "El Desdichado in Ivanhoe."

Supplemental texts:

• "Gerontion" (T.S. Eliot)
• The Golden Bough, Chapter XXXVIII, "The Myth of Osiris" (James George Frazer)
• "The Princess," Section IV (Alfred Tennyson)
• Description of 5 Tarot cards with pictures (Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Coleman Smith)
• Isaiah, Chapter 32
• Inferno, Canto 5 (Dante)
• "El Desdichado" translation (Rickard A. Parker)
• Letter from de Quadra to Philip of Spain (Alvarez de Quadra)
• From Ritual to Romance, Chapter VI, "The Symbols" (Jesse L. Weston)
• My Past (Marie Larisch)
• Lyrics to "Red Wing" (Thurland Chattaway)

Other pages:

• Lilacs in Eliot's poetry
• In the draft - "Carrying / Away the little light dead people."
• Information about the poem's dedication
• A question on the hyacinth girl
• Project Gutenberg information
• Eliot quote about the notes, "bogus scholarship" and the Tarot
• Shorter page for navigation by line numbers
• Differences in Eliot's last note

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