The Design of The Waste Land Book

Abbreviations of texts frequently cited ix Acknowledgements xiii Preface xv Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 "The Burial of the Dead" 19 I "This is the land. We have our inheritance." 19 II "The heart of light" 34 Chapter 3 Excursus 1: Dans le Restaurant; Gerontion; Burbank; A Cooking Egg 51 Chapter 4 "And after this our exile" 89 I "Madame Sosostris" 98 Chapter 5 Excursus 2: Marina; La Figlia che Piange; Sweeney Erect 109 Chapter 6 "Birth, and copulation, and death." 131 I "Unreal City" 134 II Excursus 3: "Grishkin is nice" 147 Chapter 7 "A Game of Chess" 157 I The Siren 157 II "The hot water at ten" 165 III "Rats' alley" 173 IV "A woman runs a terrible risk" 174 V Check Mate 178 VI "They'll remarry ..." 180 VII "Memory and desire" 188 VIII "Waiting for a knock upon the door." 192 IX "Hurry Up Please Its Time" 196 X "He Do the Police in Different Voices" 202 Chapter 8 "The Fire Sermon" 207 I Polyphemus 207 II "But at my back" 215 III "Bones cast in a little low dry garret" 225 Chapter 9 Excursus 4: "a cannibal isle" 229 Chapter 10 "The bloody flesh our only food" 239 I "London, your people is bound upon a wheel!" 241 II Tiresias 246 III "The yellow fog" 251 IV Heart of darkness 256 Chapter 11 "Death by Water" 285 Chapter 12 "What the Thunder Said" 299 I "The Son of Man is crucified always" 299 II "The Hanged Man" 309 III "The desert in the garden the garden in the desert" 323 IV "Give, sympathize, control" 334 V "In my beginning is my end" 356 VI "In my end is my beginning" 363 Notes 369 Bibliography 375 Index 381 About the Author 405