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A cornerstone of the Modernist movement, T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" suggests the fragmentation of civilization following World War I. Because of its changes of speaker, location, and time, as well as its numerous literary and cultural references, it is often used in the classroom to... read more
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- T. S. Eliot: Add a description of this character.
- Walt Whitman
- Russell
- Wilson
- Prufrock
- Madame Sosostris
- Bradley
- James
- Valerie Eliot
- Joyce
- Keynes
- Anna O.
- Lewis
- Marie
- Vivien
- Pater
- Milton
- Conrad Aiken
- Augustine
- Laforgue
- Tom
- Adams
- Albert
- A. Walton Litz
- Swinburne
- Shakespeare
- Nordau
- Hesse
- Spengler
- Josiah Royce
- Phlebas
- Frazer
- Bonald
- Hieronymo
- Donne
- I. A. Richards
- Webster
- Wagner
- Jean Verdenal
- Stetson
- Virgil
- Sweeney
- Poe
- John Quinn
- Miller
Setting & Locations edit
- London Bridge
- New York
- Tiresias
- Rome
- Europe
- Paris
- Cambridge
- America
- England
- Carthage
- Princeton
- Lausanne
- France
- Thunder Said
- Jerusalem
- Chicago
- Mylae
- Fresca
- Margate
- Ezra Pound
- Tempest
- Schleiermacher
- Harvard
- Gerontion
- Upanishad
- Sacred Wood
- Emmaus
- N.j.
- Babylon
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- Dewey: 821.912
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