This page lists, in alphabetical order, a number of topics for which this site has links to external sites. Each topic has a title and a number like "T 4)." The reason for the number is so, as the reader explores this web site and runs into links that he wishes to explore at a later time he can write the short number down and then come to this page afterwards to checkout his selection (instead of immediately visiting the link as he finds them or writing out the full topic name.)
Also, the following may sometimes be included:
| T 1) - Adonis | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 2) - Aeneas | ||||||
| Reason: Hero of the Aeneid by Virgil. Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 92 | ||||||
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| T 3) - Antonio | ||||||
| Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 4) - Antony and Cleopatra | ||||||
| Reason: A play by Shakespere, mentioned in Eliot's note to line 77 | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 5) - Aphrodite | ||||||
| Reason: Greek goddess equivalent to the Roman Venus. Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 6) - Apocalypse of John | ||||||
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| T 7) - Apollinaire, Guillaume | ||||||
| Reason: Apollinaire wrote a play entitled The Breasts of Tiresias. (see line 219.) | ||||||
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| T 8) - Arnold, Matthew | ||||||
| Reason: Wrote Dover Beach. Line 420 has an allusion to Dover Beach. | ||||||
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| T 9) - Artemis | ||||||
| Reason: Compare the Greek goddess Artemis with the Roman Diana. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197 | ||||||
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| T 10) - Attis | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 11) - Augustine, Saint | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 307 | ||||||
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| T 12) - Baudelaire, Charles | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 60 and Eliot's note to line 76 | ||||||
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| T 13) - Belladonna (Atropa belladonna) | ||||||
| Reason: Belladonna, mentioned on line 182 means "beautiful lady" but it is also a poisonous plant. | ||||||
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| T 14) - Bradley, F. H. | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 411 | ||||||
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| T 15) - Buddha | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 308 | ||||||
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| T 16) - Carthage | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 307. | ||||||
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| T 17) - Chaucer, Geoffrey | ||||||
| Reason: Line 1 may be an allusion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. | ||||||
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| T 18) - clairvoyance | ||||||
| Reason: Madame Sosostris was a clairvoyant (line 43.) | ||||||
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| T 19) - Cleopatra | ||||||
| Reason: Line 77 has an allusion to this Shakespearean Character. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 20) - Cleopatra VII - Historical figure | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 77 | ||||||
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| T 21) - Conrad, Joseph | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the original quote for the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 22) - Coriolanus - Shakespeare play | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 23) - Coriolanus, Caius Marcius - Shakespere character | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 24) - Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius - Historical figure | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character. This, though, is the historical Coriolanus. | ||||||
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| T 25) - Cumae | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl mentioned in the poem's epigraph lived in a cave here. | ||||||
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| T 26) - Cupid | ||||||
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| T 27) - currant | ||||||
| Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210. | ||||||
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| T 28) - da Vinci, Leonardo | ||||||
| Reason: Painter of The Mona Lisa, the Lady of the Rocks mentioned on line 182. | ||||||
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| T 29) - Daniel, Arnaut | ||||||
| Reason: The speaker of the quote in Eliot's note to line 427 | ||||||
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| T 30) - Dante | ||||||
| Reason: Author of The Divine Comedy. | ||||||
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| T 31) - Diana | ||||||
| Reason: Compare the Roman goddess Diana with the Greek Artemis. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197 | ||||||
| Columbia | ||||||
| T 32) - Dickens, Charles | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the quote that was the original title of the poem. | ||||||
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| T 33) - Dido | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 92 | ||||||
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| T 34) - Divine Comedy, The | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot has many allusions to this work by Dante. | ||||||
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| T 35) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky. | ||||||
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| T 36) - Dryden, John | ||||||
| Reason: Many translations of texts on this site were done by this poet. | ||||||
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| T 37) - Ecclesiastes | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 23 | ||||||
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| T 38) - Eliot, T. S. | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the poem. | ||||||
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| T 39) - Elizabeth I | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 279 | ||||||
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| T 40) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Emerson's elegaric poem Threnody. | ||||||
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| T 41) - Ezekiel, The Book of | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 20 | ||||||
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| T 42) - Ferdinand | ||||||
| Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 43) - Frazer, Sir James George | ||||||
| Reason: Author of Golden Bough, mentioned in Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 44) - Gallipoli Campaign | ||||||
| Reason: Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 199 | ||||||
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| T 45) - Garibaldi, Giuseppe | ||||||
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| T 46) - Gethsemane | ||||||
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| T 47) - Goldsmith, Oliver | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 253 | ||||||
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| T 48) - Gospel | ||||||
| Reason: Many allusions are made to the Gospels. | ||||||
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| T 49) - Gospel According to Luke | ||||||
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| T 50) - Gospel According to Matthew | ||||||
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| T 51) - Habsburg, House of | ||||||
| Reason: The archduke mentioned on line 13 was a member of the imperial house of Habsburg. | ||||||
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| T 52) - Hamlet | ||||||
| Reason: Line 172 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
| T 53) - Hesse, Hermann | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 | ||||||
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| T 54) - Holy Grail | ||||||
| Reason: Jesse Weston's From Ritual to Romance was partly about the myth of the Holy Grail. | ||||||
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| T 55) - Homer | ||||||
| Reason: In the Odyssey Homer had Odysseus visit Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 56) - horoscope | ||||||
| Reason: Madame Sosostris will deliver a horoscope (line 58.) | ||||||
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| T 57) - Huxley, Aldous | ||||||
| Reason: Line 43 has an allusion to a character in a novel by Huxley. | ||||||
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| T 58) - hyacinth | ||||||
| Reason: The hyacinth girl mentioned on line 36 was given this flower. | ||||||
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| T 59) - Hyacinthus | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to this mythical character. | ||||||
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| T 60) - Imagist | ||||||
| Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry | ||||||
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| T 61) - Izmir | ||||||
| Reason: Izmir is the new name for Smyrna. Mentioned on line 209. | ||||||
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| T 62) - Jacobean tragedy | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot alludes to several works of this type. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 63) - James, Henry | ||||||
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| T 64) - Kyd, Thomas | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 431 | ||||||
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| T 65) - Leicester, (Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester) | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 279 | ||||||
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| T 66) - Leman (Lac Leman, Lake Geneva) | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 182. | ||||||
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| T 67) - Lesbos | ||||||
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| T 68) - lilac | ||||||
| Reason: Lilacs are mentioned on line 002 . | ||||||
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| T 69) - London Bridge - bridge | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 426. | ||||||
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| T 70) - London Bridge - children's singing game | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 426. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 71) - London Docklands | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 72) - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | ||||||
| Reason: Longfellow supplied some of the Dante translations. | ||||||
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| T 73) - Ludwig II (King of Bavaria) | ||||||
| Reason: Line 8 has an allusion to the death of this King. | ||||||
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| T 74) - Magnus, Albertus | ||||||
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| T 75) - Marvell, Andrew | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 196 | ||||||
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| T 76) - Middleton, Thomas | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 138. Note also that Part II is titled A Game of Chess. This is the title of another play by Thomas Middleton. | ||||||
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| T 77) - Milton, John | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 98 | ||||||
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| T 78) - Munich | ||||||
| Reason: Locale of some places mentioned in Part I. | ||||||
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| T 79) - Mylae, Battle of | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 70. | ||||||
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| T 80) - Myth | ||||||
| Reason: The Waste Land has allusions to many myths. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 81) - Naiad | ||||||
| Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 82) - Nereid | ||||||
| Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 83) - Nerval, Gérard de | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 429 | ||||||
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| T 84) - Nightingale - Old World | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 100. | ||||||
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| T 85) - Nightingale Thrush - New World | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 357 | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 86) - Nymph | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
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| T 87) - Odin | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 46 | ||||||
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| T 88) - Odysseus | ||||||
| Reason: Odysseus visited Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 89) - Oedipus | ||||||
| Reason: Tiresias was a character in Sopocles' Oedipus, the King (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 90) - oracle | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae mentioned in the poem's epigraph was an oracle. | ||||||
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| T 91) - Osiris | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 92) - Ovid | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 218 | ||||||
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| T 93) - Pater, Walter Horatio | ||||||
| Reason: Author of an essay alluded to by "the Lady of the Rocks" mentioned on line 49. | ||||||
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| T 94) - Perceval | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 202 | ||||||
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| T 95) - Petronius Arbiter, Gaius | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the Satyricon a quote of which appears in the the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 96) - Phoebus Apollo | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Hyacinthus. | ||||||
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| T 97) - Phoenicia | ||||||
| Reason: Phlebas was a Phoenician (line 312.) | ||||||
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| T 98) - Pope, Alexander | ||||||
| Reason: Deleted section of the poem was written in the style of this poet. Also, many translations of texts on this site were done by Pope. | ||||||
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| T 99) - Pound, Ezra | ||||||
| Reason: The poem was edited by Pound and dedicated to him. | ||||||
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| T 100) - Psalms | ||||||
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| T 101) - ragtime | ||||||
| Reason: Line 128 has an allusion to The Shakespearean Rag. | ||||||
| Columbia | Britannica | |||||
| T 102) - raisin | ||||||
| Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210. | ||||||
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| T 103) - resurrection | ||||||
| Reason: The Golden Bough tells of many myths of resurrection, some of which were incorporated into The Waste Land. | ||||||
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| T 104) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | ||||||
| Reason: Line 182 has an allusion to Rousseau weeping at Lac Leman. | ||||||
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| T 105) - Russell, Bertrand | ||||||
| Reason: Russell was a financial supporter of Eliot and possibly intimate with his first wife. | ||||||
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| T 106) - Saint John | ||||||
| Reason: The draft had an allusion to Saint John (see line 56.) | ||||||
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| T 107) - Sanskrit language | ||||||
| Reason: Line 433 is in Sanskrit. | ||||||
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| T 108) - Sanskrit literature | ||||||
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| T 109) - Sappho | ||||||
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| T 110) - Sermon on the Mount | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 111) - Shackleton, Sir Ernest | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 360 | ||||||
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| T 112) - Shakespeare, William | ||||||
| Reason: There are many allusions to plays by Shakespeare. | ||||||
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| T 113) - Sibyl | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae is the subject of the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 114) - Smyrna | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 209. | ||||||
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| T 115) - Sophocles | ||||||
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| T 116) - Spenser, Edmund | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 176 | ||||||
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| T 117) - Stevenson, Robert Louis | ||||||
| Reason: Author of a possible allusion for line 221 | ||||||
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| T 118) - Symbolist movement | ||||||
| Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry | ||||||
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| T 119) - Tammuz | ||||||
| Reason: Compare with the gods mentioned in Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 120) - Tarot | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 46 | ||||||
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| T 121) - Tereus | ||||||
| Reason: Part of the Philomela myth mentioned in Eliot's note to line 99 | ||||||
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| T 122) - Thames, River | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 176 (and others). | ||||||
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| T 123) - The Brothers Karamazov | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky. | ||||||
| T 124) - The Tempest | ||||||
| Reason: Line 48 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
| T 125) - Thebes | ||||||
| Reason: Tiresias sat by Thebes below the wall (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 126) - Tiresias | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 218 | ||||||
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| T 127) - Tristan and Isolde | ||||||
| Reason: Legend used by Wagner for his opera, lines from which appear in the poem at lines 31-34 and line 42 | ||||||
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| T 128) - Upanishad | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 401 | ||||||
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| T 129) - Veda | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 401 | ||||||
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| T 130) - Venus | ||||||
| Reason: Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 131) - Verlaine, Paul | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 202 | ||||||
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| T 132) - Virgil | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the Aeneid mentioned in Eliot's note to line 92 Fictional guide of Dante in The Divine Comedy | ||||||
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| T 133) - Wagner, Richard | ||||||
| Reason: There are several allusions to operas by Wagner. | ||||||
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| T 134) - Webster, John | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 74 and Eliot's note to line 118 and Eliot's note to line 407 | ||||||
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| T 135) - Wheel of Life | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 320. | ||||||
| Britannica | ||||||
| T 136) - Whitman, Walt | ||||||
| Reason: There may be several allusions to poems by Whitman. | ||||||
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| T 137) - Wittelsbach, House of | ||||||
| Reason: The Marie mentioned on line 15 was a member of Bavaria's house of Wittelsbach. | ||||||
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| T 138) - Wren, Sir Christopher | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 264 | ||||||
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File date: Sunday, September 29, 2002