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apparition of Jesus born of the disciples’ grief over the Crucifixion. In both
cases the apparition was delivering. The Waste Land’spositive force derives
from the characters’ ability to generate, from an unreduced residue of
feeling, an archetypal identity which delivers them from the closed circle of
the Bradleyan self and the immediate historical moment.
NOTES
- Conrad Aiken, “An Anatomy of Melancholy,” New Republic,7 February 1923; I.A.
Richards, Science and Poetry, Principles of Literary Criticism(London, 1926); F.R. Leavis,
New Bearings in English Poetry(London, 1932); F.O. Matthiessen, The Achievement of T.S.
Eliot(New York, 1935); Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition(Chapel Hill,
1939); George Williamson, A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot(New York, 1953); Hugh Kenner,
The Invisible Poet: T.S. Eliot(New York, 1959). - In an autograph letter to L.A.G. Strong, 3 July 1923, quoted in An Exhibition of
Manuscripts and First Editions of T.S. Eliot(Austin, 1961), p. 10. - The Letters of Ezra Pound 1907–1941,ed. D.D. Paige (New York, 1950), [? January]
1922, p. 171. - The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the
Annotations of Ezra Pound,edited with an Introduction by Valerie Eliot (New York, 1971).
The draft is part manuscript, part typescript. - Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley(London, 1964).
- Eliot will be quoted from Collected Poems 1909–1962(London, 1963).
- See Facsimile,Introduction, pp. xx–xxi.
- Eliot knew Colin Still’s interpretation of The Tempestas a Mystery ritual of
initiation (Shakespeare’s Mystery Play,London, 1921). - Facsimile,p. 47.
- From Ritual to Romance(Cambridge, 1920).
- We do not know when Eliot first read Bradley, but he did not begin to study him
until he returned from Paris to Harvard in autumn 1911 to work for a doctorate in
philosophy. - Knowledge and Experience,p. 19.
- Appearance and Reality,2nd ed. (London, 1902), pp. 346, 79.
- Appearance and Reality,pp. 92–93.
- Reprinted as Appendix in Knowledge and Experiencepp. 203–04.