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''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 nearly in full. Missing in''The Criterion'' is the epigraph and dedication to Pound. In ''The Dial'', the epigraph is present, but there is no dedication. | ''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 nearly in full. Missing in''The Criterion'' is the epigraph and dedication to Pound. In ''The Dial'', the epigraph is present, but there is no dedication. | ||
===Epigraph=== | ===Epigraph=== | ||
| − | Interestingly, Eliot did not originally intend to use a quote from the ''Satyricon'' to begin | + | Interestingly, Eliot did not originally intend to use a quote from the ''Satyricon'' to begin ''The Waste Land''. Instead, he wanted to quote Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness''. He planned to begin ''The Waste Land'' with "The horror! the horror!" but during the editing process, Ezra Pound advised against this. In Pound's opinion, opening this great epic poem with a cry of fear would portray Eliot as weak. Pound, obsessed with masculinity, was determined that nothing should emasculate Eliot's epic. |
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===Dedication=== | ===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). | 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). | ||
