The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line poem by T. S. Eliot. The title is often mistakenly written as The Wasteland.

Style

Sources from which Eliot quotes or to which he alludes include the works of Petronius, Virgil, Ovid, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Gérard de Nerval, Thomas Kyd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Charles Baudelaire, Richard Wagner, Oliver Goldsmith, Hermann Hesse, Paul Verlaine, and Aldous Huxley. Eliot also makes extensive use of Scriptural writings including the Bible, the Hindu Brihad-Aranyaka-Upanishad, and the Buddha's Fire Sermon, and of cultural and anthropological studies such as Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough and Jessie Weston's From Ritual to Romance (particularly its study of the Wasteland motif in Celtic mythology.

Related Topics:
Virgil - Ovid - Augustine of Hippo - Dante Alighieri - William Shakespeare - Edmund Spenser - Gérard de Nerval - Thomas Kyd - Geoffrey Chaucer - Thomas Middleton - John Webster - John Milton - Andrew Marvell - Charles Baudelaire - Richard Wagner - Oliver Goldsmith - Hermann Hesse - Paul Verlaine - Aldous Huxley - Bible - Brihad-Aranyaka - Upanishad - Buddha - Fire Sermon - Anthropological - James Frazer - The Golden Bough - Jessie Weston - From Ritual to Romance - Wasteland - Celtic mythology

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