T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Modern Critical Interpretations

Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Bloom

Copyright © 1986 by Chelsea House Publishers
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Introduction © 1986 by Harold Bloom

Printed and bound in the United States of America

The contents of the book are:

• Editor's Note
• Introduction - Harold Bloom
• The Death of Europe - Hugh Kenner
• Imagism and Its Consequences - Graham Hough
• The First Waste Land - Richard Ellmann
• The Waste Land and the Descensus ad Inferos - Bernard F. Dick
• T. S. Eliot and the Carthaginian Peace - Eleanor Cook
• The Structure and Mythical Method of The Waste Land - Grover Smith
• Discovering the Corpus - Gregory S. Jay
• Eliot, Rusell, and Whitman: Realism, Politics, and Literary Persona in
• The Waste Land - Cleo McNelly Kearns
• Chronology
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
T. S. Eliot : The waste land.
(Modern critical interpretations)
Bibliography; p,
Includes index,
1. Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965, Waste land.
I. Bloom, Harold,      II. Series
PS3509.L43W3815      1986      821'.912      86-6064
ISBN 1-55546-0380-0 (alk. paper)

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