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The Waste Land was published for the first time simultaneously in ''The Criterion'' in London and in ''The Dial'' in New York in October 1922. Let's take a look at the content surrounding the poem in both magazines and elsewhere.

==Structure of the Poem==
Page Structure:
In the Criterion, there are obvious stanza breaks that indicate pauses intended by Eliot, whereas in the Dial pauses correspond more with page breaks that may or may not have been stanza breaks.
Indentation is used in the Criterion and right-side alignment is used in the Dial for the same phrases. Perhaps the editor of the Dial wanted to communicate a more dramatic structural difference.
In the Dial, the section headings (ie. A Game of Chess) are not enumerated (I, II, III, IV, V).

==Globalization==
 The Waste Land is accompanied by several contributions from around the world in both magazines. This is a concrete example of the globalization that began as a result of WWI. Soldiers have traveled overseas, have seen places for themselves.
There is an increased aesthetic interest in global commodities. There is an ad in the Criterion, the only commercial (non bookshop/book/publishing company) ad we found, for oriental rugs. "The best selection in the world!"

==Contemporaneous Criticisms of The Waste Land==