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Leavis, F. R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1932.
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Wilson, Edmund. Axel’s Castle. New York: Scribner’s, 1931.
Contemporary Responses to The Waste Land (in chronological order)
British Responses to the Criterion Publication
Anonymous. [Review.] Times Literary Supplement, no. 1084 (22 October 1922): 690. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 134–135.
“A¤able Hawk” [Desmond McCarthy]. “Current Literature: Books in General.”
New Statesman, 4 November 1922, 140. Not reprinted.
Harold Monro. “Notes for a Study of The Wasteland. ” Chapbook, February 1923, 120–124. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 162–170.
British Responses to the Hogarth Edition
Anonymous [Edgell Rickword]. “A Fragmentary Poem.” Times Literary Supplement,
no. 1131 (20 September 1923): 616. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 184–186.
Clive Bell. “T. S. Eliot.” Nation and Athenaeum 33 (23 September 1923): 772–773.
Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 186–191.
J. C. Squire. “Poetry.” London Mercury 8, no. 48 (October 1923): 655–657. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 191–192.
C[harles]. P[owell]. “The Waste Land.” Manchester Guardian, 31 October 1923, 7.
Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 195.
F. L. Lucas. “The Waste Land.” New Statesman, 22 (3 November 1923): 116–118.
Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 195–199.
Humbert Wolfe. “Waste Land and Waste Paper.” Weekly Westminster n.s. 1
(17 November 1923): 94. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 200–203.
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J. M. H. “Poetry: Old and New.” Freeman [Dublin], 9 February 1924, 9. Not
reprinted.
N[etta]. T[hompson]. “Modern American Poetry.” Aberdeen Press, 26 May 1924, 3.
Not reprinted.
Edwin Muir. “T. S. Eliot.” Nation 121 (5 August 1925): 162–164. Rpt. in Nation and Athenaeum, 29 August 1925, 644–646.
American Responses to the Dial and Boni and Liveright Edition
Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book,” s.v. “Tuesday, October 26.” New York
Tribune, 5 November 1922, sec. V, 8. Not reprinted.
Anonymous. “The Sporting Spirit.” Literary Review Published by the New York
Evening Post, 11 November 1922: 1. Not reprinted.
Edmund Wilson. “The Rag-Bag of the Soul.” Literary Review Published by the
New York Evening Post, 25 November 1922: 237–238. Rpt. in Brooker, Eliot, 77–81.
Anonymous. “Books and Authors” [Comment on the Dial Award]. New York Times Book Review, 26 November 1922: 12. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 135–136.
Edmund Wilson. “The Poetry of Drouth.” Dial 73, no. 6 (December 1922):
611–616. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 138–144.
[Scofield Thayer and Gilbert Seldes]. “Comment.” Dial 73, no. 6 (December 1922): 685–687. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 136–138.
A[llen]. T[ate]. “Whose Ox.” Fugitive 1 (December 1922): 99–100. Excerpted in Brooker, Eliot, 90–91.
Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book.” New York Tribune, 3 December 1922,
sec. VI, 18. Not reprinted.
Anonymous. “Books and Bookmen.” Christian Science Monitor, 6 December
1922, 8.
Gilbert Seldes. “T. S. Eliot.” Nation 115 (6 December 1922): 614–616. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 144–150.
Gorham B. Munson. “Congratulations and More ‘Ill-Mannered References.’”
Secession 4 (January 1923): 31–32. Not reprinted.
Mary Colum. “Modernists.” Literary Review Published by the New York Evening Post 3 (6 January 1923): 361–362. Not reprinted.
Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book,” s.v. “Saturday, December 30.” New York
Tribune, 7 January 1923, sec. VI, 22. Excerpted in Brooker, Eliot, 91–93.
Christopher Morley. “The Bowling Green,” s.v. “Apollo and Apollinaris.” New York Evening Post, 9 January 1923, 349. Not reprinted.
Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book , ” New York Tribune, 14 January 1923, sec. VI, 23. Rpt. in Burton Rascoe, A Bookman’s Daybook (New York: Horace
Liveright, 1929), 71–72.
Louis Untermeyer. “Disillusion as Dogma.” Freeman (17 January 1923): 453.
Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 151–153.
Elinor Wylie. “Mr. Eliot’s Slug Horn.” Literary Review Published by the New York Evening Post 3 (20 January 1923): 396. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 153–156.
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Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book,” s.v. “Friday, January 12.” New York
Tribune, 21 January 1923, sec. VI, 27. Excerpted in Brooker, Eliot, 97.
Anonymous. “The Dial’s Prize.” Boston Herald, 27 January 1923, 6. Not reprinted.
Frederic F. Van de Water. “Books and So Forth.” New York Tribune, 28 January 1923, sec. VI, 19. Not reprinted.
Fanny Butcher. “Books,” s.v. “Help, Help.” Chicago Tribune, 4 February 1923, pt. 7, 23. Not reprinted.
Conrad Aiken. “An Anatomy of Melancholy.” New Republic 33 (7 February 1923): 295. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 156–161.
Anonymous. Title unknown. Oregonian [Portland], 11 February 1923, sec. 5, 3.
Not reprinted.
John Drury. “World’s Greatest Poem.” Chicago Daily News, 14 February 1923, 15.
Not reprinted.
Otto Heller. “T. S. Eliot Awarded $2,000 Prize for The Waste Land. ” St. Louis Dispatch, 24 February 1923, 10. Not reprinted.
Robert L. Du¤us. “Genius and the Gu¤aws of the Crowd.” Globe and Commercial
Advertiser (New York), 28 February 1923, 16. Not reprinted.
N. P. Dawson. “Enjoying Poor Literature.” Forum, March 1923, 325–330. Not
reprinted.
Harriet Monroe. “A Contrast.” Poetry 31 (March 1923): 325–330. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 166–170.
J. F. “Shantih, Shantih, Shantih.” Time 1 (3 March 1923): 12. Rpt. in Brooker, Eliot, 77–81.
N. P. Dawson. “Books in Particular.” Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York), 6 March 1923, 16. Not reprinted.
Anonymous. “Editorials,” s.v. “Hoaxing the American Literati.” Christian Science Monitor, 23 March 1923, 18. Not reprinted.
H[erbert]. S. Gorman. “The Waste Land of the Younger Generation.” Literary
Digest International Book Review 1, no. 5 (April 1923): 46, 48, 64. Not reprinted.
Henry G. Hart. “New Plays and Poems.” Philadelphia Record, 1 April 1923, sec. T, 6. Not reprinted.
N. P. Dawson. “Review of the Season’s Latest Books,” s.v. “Theodoro, the Sage.”
Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York), 12 April 1923, 17. Not reprinted.
Clement Wood. “If There Were a Pillory for Poets,” “The Waste Land. ” New York Herald, 15 April 1923, 3, 6. Not reprinted.
N. P. Dawson. “Books in Particular.” Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York), 17 April 1923, 14, 16. Not reprinted.
Burton Rascoe. “A Bookman’s Day Book,” s.v. “Wednesday, April 18.” New York
Tribune, 22 April 1923. Rpt. in Burton Rascoe, A Bookman’s Daybook (New York: Horace Liveright, 1929), 96–97.
J. M. [Review.] Double Dealer 5 (May 1923): 173–174
. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 170–172.
Anonymous. “Eliot, T. S. The Waste Land. ” Open Shelf (Cleveland Public Library), no. 5 (May 1923): 35. Rpt. in Lawrence Rainey, “[Review of ] Jewel Spears
Brooker, T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ” in Modernism/Modernity 11, no. 4 (November 2004): 834–837.
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Clement Wood. “The Tower of Drivel.” New York Call, 20 June 1923, 11. Not
reprinted.
Elsa Gidlow. “A Waste Land, Indeed.” New Pearson’s 49 (July 1923): 57. Not
reprinted.
John Crowe Ransom. “Waste Lands.” Literary Review Published by the New York
Evening Post 3 (14 July 1923): 825–826. Rpt. in Christopher Morley, ed., Modern Essays: Second Series (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924), 345–359, and in Grant, Eliot, 172–179.
Helen McAfee. “The Literature of Disillusion.” Atlantic 132 (August 1923): 227.
Excerpted in Grant, Eliot, 182–183.
Allen Tate. “A Reply to Ransom.” Literary Review Published by the New York Evening Post 3 (4 August 1923): 886. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 180–182.
Clive Bell. “The Elusive Art of T. S. Eliot: An Enquiry into the Artistic Principles of the Most Disputed of Living American Poets.” Vanity Fair, September 1923, 53, 110. Same as Bell, “T. S. Eliot,” above; rpt. under its English title in Grant,
Eliot, 186–191.
William Rose Benét. “Among the New Books.” Yale Review, October 1923,
161–165. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 192–193.
Edward Shanks. “Books and Authors: New Poets.” Daily News, 8 October 1923, 9.
Not reprinted.
Gorham B. Munson. “The Esotericism of T. S. Eliot.” 1924, no. 1 (1 July 1924): 3–10. Rpt. in Grant, Eliot, 203–212.
g e n e r a l i n d e x
When reference is made to notes that are
Bateman, Henry Mayo, 231 n. 16
keyed to the line numbers in The Waste
Baudelaire, Charles, 36–37, 81 l. 60, 85 l.
Land, the page number is immediately
76, 215 n. 4, 231 n. 15, 238 n. 32, 247
followed by the poem’s line number(s):
n. 15, 249 n. 35
e.g., 103 l. 92.
Beach, Sylvia, 28
Beaumont and Fletcher, 78 ll. 28–29
Absalom and Achitophel (John Dryden),