Dedication Annotations
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Go to [[The Waste Land Text]] | Go to [[The Waste Land Text]] | ||
| − | ==Dedication== | + | Go to [[Eliot's Notes]] |
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For Ezra Pound | For Ezra Pound | ||
''Il miglior fabbro'' | ''Il miglior fabbro'' | ||
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Ezra Pound edited "The Waste Land," and was one of the foremost minds of the twentieth century. | Ezra Pound edited "The Waste Land," and was one of the foremost minds of the twentieth century. | ||
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=== Dante Alighieri === | === Dante Alighieri === | ||
| − | This dedication echoes Dante's tribute to Provencal poet Arnault Daniel, which indicates that Eliot sees an association between himself and Alighieri, and perhaps "The Waste Land" and ''The Divine Comedy''. | + | This dedication echoes Dante's tribute to Provencal poet Arnault Daniel, which indicates that Eliot sees an association between himself and Alighieri, and perhaps "The Waste Land" and ''The Divine Comedy''. This is an important point to remember for later references to ''The Divine Comedy'' in "The Waste Land." |
Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | ||
