Eliot's World before The Waste Land

2 The Chemistry of Poetry: Eliot's Aesthetic

3 The Waste Land in the Making

Poetry and the Moral Imperative I

Journalism and Poetry II

III The Structure and the Mythical Method

IV The Original Poem and its Transformation

4 The Poetic Means: Eliot and his Sources

I The Sources and the 'Notes'

II The Dying God and the Fisher King

III The Tarot Pack

IV Corpse and Dog

V The Metamorphoses of Tiresias

VI Phlebas as Osiris

VII Further Transformations in 'The Fire Sermon'

VIII The Journey to Emmaus

IX The Approaching Storm

X The Materials of 'A Game of Chess'

XI Fusions and Confusions: a Summing-Up

5 The Lengthened Shadow of a Man: The Waste Land

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