Bibliography
Books and printed material
This page contains a T.S. Eliot bibliography. This will be a list of
printed material about Eliot or
The Waste Land.
Links to other websites and pages are listed on a
seperate page of links.
Quick Access to contents on this page:
Here are my most highly recommended books and the reasons why they are:
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T. S. Eliot:
The Waste Land - A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
This book has Eliot's original drafts of
The Waste Land
and some other poems.
You can see how the poem was edited and perhaps get a new reading
of the poem by taking into consideration what Eliot and Pound deleted.
It also contains a copy of
The Waste Land
as originally published with Eliot's notes (revised in later editions).
It is available in paperback and so is not out of reach of a student
(my copy was $17).
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James E. Miller Jr:
T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land
This is the book that launched this site. Originally my personal website just
had a page recommending this book. I learned so much from this book though
that I created this site hoping to make
The Waste Land
available to all. Miller's book is somewhat academic but clear enough
for college students.
Unfortunately, it is out of print.
You can search for used books at the Addall.com website.
This link will invoke a search for Miller's book.
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Nancy K. Gish:
The Waste Land: A Poem of Memory and Desire
(This also appears with the title
The Waste Land: A Student's Companion to the Poem.)
This is the book for students to get if they only want one
about
The Waste Land.
This is an excellent introductory text.
Gish presents a personal meaning to the poem, is easy to read but retains
scholarship. She presents
The Waste Land
in context and goes through each section of poem connecting the pieces to each
other and with Eliot's life and giving meaning to the poem. It is a different
interpretation than Miller's. The book is available in paperback
for about $18.
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B. C. Southam:
A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Southam annotates, annotates and annotates some more. He does not interpret
The Waste Land
but does show where the sources for the lines are and where the allusions
are from. If you think I've got a lot of notes, check out this book. To be
fair to him I've tried to keep my notes down to those that I could find in
other works also. Thus this book is still a good read if you want to know
more about
The Waste Land
and some of Eliot's other works. Another paperback ($13).
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Gareth Reeves:
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
This is the best writing I've seen on the poetry of
The Waste Land.
Reeves discusses many passages showing Eliot's use of words and language.
Each of the books below that are hyperlinked have
a page of information about them at the
Exploring The Waste Land
website. Just follow the links.
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Bedient, Calvin: He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist
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Bloom, Harold, ed.:
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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Bolgan, Anne C.: What the Thunder Really Said: A Retrospective Essay on the Making of The Waste Land
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Brooker, Jewel Spears and Joseph Bently: Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation
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Coote, Stephan: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
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Cox, C.B. and Arnold P. Hinchliffe, eds.: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
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Crawford, Fred D.: Mixing Memory and Desire: The Waste Land and British Novels
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Eliot, T. S.:
The Waste Land - A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
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Gish, Nancy K.:
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Miller, James E. Jr.:
T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land
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North, Michael, ed.: The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot
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Reeves, Gareth:
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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Ackroyd, Peter:
T.S. Eliot: A Life
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Bergonzi, Bernard: T.S. Eliot
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Bush, Ronald:
T. S. Eliot, a Study in Character and Style
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Gordon, Lyndall:
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Eliot's Early Years
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Eliot's New Life
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
(Incorporates the 2 above and more)
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Sencourt Robert: T.S. Eliot: A Memoir
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Seymour-Jones, Carole:
Painted Shadow: A Life of Vivienne Eliot
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Spender, Stephan:T.S. Eliot
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Matthews, T.S.: Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot
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Mayer, John T.:
T. S. Eliot's Silent Voices
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Miller, James E. Jr.:
T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land
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Bloom, Harold, ed.:
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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Cox, C.B. and Arnold P. Hinchliffe, eds.: T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
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Kenner, Hugh, ed.:
T. S. Eliot - A collection of Critical Essays
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Moody, A. David, ed.:
The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot
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North, Michael, ed.: The Waste Land: T.S. Eliot
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Rajan, B. ed.: T.S. Eliot: A Study of his Writings by Serval Hands
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Wagner, Linda W., ed.: T.S. Eliot: A Collection of Criticism
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Brooker, Jewel Spears: Mastery and Escape: T.S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism
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Capri-Karka, C.: Love and the Symbolic Journey in the Poetry of Cavafy, Eliot and Seferis
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Cliffs Notes on T. S. Eliot's Major Poems and Plays
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Donoghue, Denis: Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot
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Eliot, T. S.:
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Gish, Nancy K.: Time in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot : A Study in Structure and Meaning
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Hargrove, Nancy Duvall:
Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot
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Hay, Eloise Knapp:
T. S. Eliot's Negative Way
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Headings, Philip R.:
T.S. Eliot, Revised Edition
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Howarth, Herbert: Notes on Some Figures Behind T.S. Eliot
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Julius, Anthony: T.S. Eliot: Anti-Semitism and Literary Form
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Lamos, Colleen:
Deviant Modernism: Sexual and Textual Errancy in T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust
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Lee, Brian: Theory and Personality: The Significance of T.S. Eliot's Criticism
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Matthiessen, F.O.: The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
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Maxwell, D.E.S.: The Poetry of T.S. Eliot
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McCallum, Pamela: Literature and Method: Towards a critique of I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis
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Miller, James E. Jr.:
T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land
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Moody, A.D.: Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet
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Riquelme, John Paul: Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination
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Smith, Grover: T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Plays: A Study in Sources and Meaning
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Southam, B. C.:
A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
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Sultan, Stanley: Eliot, Joyce & Company
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Unger, Leonard: Eliot's Compound Ghost
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Unger, Leonard:
T.S. Eliot, Moments and Patterns
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Williamson, George: T.S. Eliot: A Reader's Guide to a Poem by Poem Analysis
These are works that may help you understand
The Waste Land
or may contain Eliot criticism but are not primarily about Eliot.
Although paperback copies of Weston's and Frazer's books are inexpensive
even cheaper is downloading copies off the web.
There are some links below that allow that.
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Adelman, Gary:
Heart of Darkness: Search for the Unconscious
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Empson, William: Seven Types of Ambiguity
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Larisch, Marie:
(Eliot's note to
The Waste Land's line 16 refers to this Marie).
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My Past
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Secrets of a Royal House
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Frazer, James George:
(Eliot's note to
The Waste Land refers to this author).
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Osborne, Charles: The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner
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Powell, Violet: A Substantial Ghost
(Has significant information on Marie Larisch).
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Shackleton, Ernest: South
(Eliot's note to
The Waste Land's line 360 refers to this book).
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Weston, Jesse L.:
(Eliot's note to
The Waste Land refers to this author).
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