Crash Course English Literature #101. Shelley's Ghost - Reshaping the image of a literary family. Wretched woman! Listen to T.S. Eliot Read His Modernist Masterpieces “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Did you know T.S.
Eliot’s portentous and heavily allusive 1922 masterpiece “The Waste Land” was originally titled “He Do the Police in Different Voices,” a quote from Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend? Filled with references to Dante’s Divine Comedy, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and James Frazier’s The Golden Bough, this most famous of high modernist poems—scourge of millions of college freshman each year—was a very different animal before notorious modernist impresario Ezra Pound got his hands on it.
Pound’s heavy reworking is responsible for the poem you hear above, read by Eliot himself. The first image in the video shows Pound’s marginal annotations. Documenting the American South homepage. Using the William Blake Archive in Teaching Poetry. Nova Languages: Wallace Stevens...