Archival Evidence

''The Waste Land'' first appeared in the October 1922 edition of British literary magazine, ''The Criterion.'' One month later, ''The Waste Land'' was published in ''The Dial,'' and American literary magazine. In both of these magazines, the poem appears in full, with one major exception. In ''The Criterion'', there is no epigraph or dedication to Pound. In ''The Dial'', the epigraph is present, but there is no dedication. Though "For Ezra Pound, ''il migilor fabbro.''" is included in all modern day publications of ''The Waste Land'', it did not actually get printed as part of the epigraph until 1925. The dedication to Pound first appears in Eliot's ''Poems 1909-1925'', though Eliot apparently hand wrote the dedication in a a copy of the Boni and Liveright edition, first published in December 1922 (Wilhelm 309).

''The Waste Land'' first appeared in the October 1922 edition of British literary magazine, ''The Criterion.'' One month later, ''The Waste Land'' was published in ''The Dial,'' and American literary magazine. In both of these magazines, the poem appears in full, with one major exception. In ''The Criterion'', there is no epigraph or dedication to Pound. In ''The Dial'', the epigraph is present, but there is no dedication. Though "For Ezra Pound, ''il migilor fabbro.''" is included in all modern day publications of ''The Waste Land'', it did not actually get printed as part of the epigraph until 1925. The dedication to Pound first appears in Eliot's ''Poems 1909-1925'', though Eliot apparently hand wrote the dedication in a a copy of the Boni and Liveright edition, first published in December 1922 (Wilhelm 309).

==Structure of the Poem==

==Structure of the Poem==