Exploring The Waste Land
A draft page linked from The Waste Land, Part V, line 369
In the draft of The Waste Land
In the published version of
The Waste Land
we have:
- Who are those hooded hordes swarming
- Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
In the draft version:
- Who are those hooded hordes swarming
- Over Polish plains, stumbling in cracked earth
The draft version does more to steer us toward the
"decay of eastern Europe" reading that
Eliot's note
to
Part V
mentions than does the final version.
Citation: "The Facsimile"
pp. 72-75
Exploring The Waste Land
File name: dq369.html
File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002
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