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Thanks Elizabeth! Okay, here are notes from this past Friday when I returned to Special Collections: | Thanks Elizabeth! Okay, here are notes from this past Friday when I returned to Special Collections: | ||
| − | The Dial was actually published in connecticut, although its offices were located at 152 W 13th St. New York, NY. | + | The Dial was actually published in connecticut, although its offices were located at 152 W 13th St. New York, NY. View the space of the old office here: [http://goo.gl/maps/Nbiqz] |
| + | As for the issue of the Dial in which the Waste Land appeared: Vol. LXXIII No. 5 Nov 1922 | ||
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| + | Cost, $.50 per issue or $5 for a yearly subscription. | ||
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| + | Editor: Scofield Thayer | ||
| + | Managing Editor: Gilbert Seldes | ||
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| + | Notes on Contributors: | ||
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| + | Constantin Brancusi- scultper, born in Romania, living in Paris | ||
| + | Robert Delaunay - born in Paris in 1887, influenced by Russeau | ||
| + | Elie Faure - author of The History of Art, reviewed by Thomas Craven in Feb 1922 issue of The Dial. In this issue, Faure replies to Craven's criticism. | ||
| + | Duncan Grant - born in Scottish highlands. | ||
| + | Adolph Dehn - living in Germany and Austria | ||
| + | Sebastien Cauiflower - American | ||
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| + | The Dial does include ads. They are ordered below by appearance: | ||
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| + | Harcourt, Brace & Company | ||
| + | The Century Company | ||
| + | Macmillan | ||
| + | Broom Magazine | ||
| + | Boni & Liveright | ||
| + | The New Republic | ||
| + | Knopf | ||
| + | The Atlantic Monthly Press - 7 Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker | ||
| + | Little, Brown & Company - This Freedom by ASM Hutchinson | ||
| + | Theatre Magazine "A History of theatre in America." | ||
| + | Doubleday, Page & Co. | ||
| + | George H Doran & Co. | ||
| + | Brentanos Publishers | ||
| + | Harper & Brothers | ||
| + | Houghton Mifflin | ||
| + | Robert M McBride & Co. | ||
| + | Costikyan & Co. - 12 E 40 St New York, NY. - "Antique & Modern Rugs from the Orient." "Largest Assortment in the World." | ||
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| + | Notes about text: | ||
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| + | "An edition of the The Land with annotations will presently be issued by Boni & Liveright" - The editors. | ||
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| + | In the dial, the first break in the text actually comes at the end of the page | ||
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| + | "HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME" actually appears in a different font from the rest of the poem (it's not only capitalized). | ||
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| + | There are differences in pagination as concerns the poem in the U.S and British editions. | ||
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| + | In The Criterion, the following lines were not aligned to the right (as they were in The Dial). Instead, they were simply indented: "if there were water," "I sat upon the shore," "A current under sea," Gentile or Jew," | ||
| + | The Hot Water at 10." | ||
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| + | 9-10-12, 10:32 am | ||
Here are my notes so far. I spent considerably more time with the Dial than the Criterion last week. :: ''The Dial'' :: Published October 1922 (November issue) in New York. Sections of poem not enumerated I, II, III, IV, V. Schnitzler, Weinstein, “Made in Germany” – German contributions, post-war, with Waste Land’s war themes, universal war not anti-Germany right now. WB Yeats’ play The Player Queen is right after the Waste Land. Schnitzler: October Graesler starts with “XII (continued)” – an installment of a novel transalted from German. Picasso drawings of naked women lounging – was this not scandal? ''Date?'' Also paintings of nude/acrobats by Duncan Grant. ''Who is he?'' Adolph Dehn. “Drinkers” during Prohibition… "Any Marriages" by Sherwood Anderson starts with Chapter IV, and goes into ch 1 or Book Two, possibly to leave suspense to look for the rest of part 2. “Paris Letter” by Ezra Pound. Lots of interesting stuff on the first page: 1. “literature is regarded in America as an advertising medium.” 2. “our brilliant contemporary Mr T.S. Eliot constantly assures us that he is about to pursue [the attempt to disentangle our national qualities]” (our = US and British). “Comment” about children’s book week. Sarcastic and hilarious! Ads: for art shows, bookshops, books, other periodicals. Ad layouts are like modern theater playbills; modern play programs are laid out much like this whole magazine with ads in the front and back and written or photgraphic content in the middle. Feels more like a magazine because of ads. The Waste Land is the very first written contribution, only preceded by one watercolor painting. Perhaps because Eliot had been living in GB for a while by now and was perhaps more like a featured contributor – not included on the “notable contributors” page. :: ''The Criterion'' :: Published October 1922 in London. No ads. Looks like a book from cover to cover. No images. The Waste Land is in the middle of the publication --Elizabeth 09/08/2012 10:53pm | Here are my notes so far. I spent considerably more time with the Dial than the Criterion last week. :: ''The Dial'' :: Published October 1922 (November issue) in New York. Sections of poem not enumerated I, II, III, IV, V. Schnitzler, Weinstein, “Made in Germany” – German contributions, post-war, with Waste Land’s war themes, universal war not anti-Germany right now. WB Yeats’ play The Player Queen is right after the Waste Land. Schnitzler: October Graesler starts with “XII (continued)” – an installment of a novel transalted from German. Picasso drawings of naked women lounging – was this not scandal? ''Date?'' Also paintings of nude/acrobats by Duncan Grant. ''Who is he?'' Adolph Dehn. “Drinkers” during Prohibition… "Any Marriages" by Sherwood Anderson starts with Chapter IV, and goes into ch 1 or Book Two, possibly to leave suspense to look for the rest of part 2. “Paris Letter” by Ezra Pound. Lots of interesting stuff on the first page: 1. “literature is regarded in America as an advertising medium.” 2. “our brilliant contemporary Mr T.S. Eliot constantly assures us that he is about to pursue [the attempt to disentangle our national qualities]” (our = US and British). “Comment” about children’s book week. Sarcastic and hilarious! Ads: for art shows, bookshops, books, other periodicals. Ad layouts are like modern theater playbills; modern play programs are laid out much like this whole magazine with ads in the front and back and written or photgraphic content in the middle. Feels more like a magazine because of ads. The Waste Land is the very first written contribution, only preceded by one watercolor painting. Perhaps because Eliot had been living in GB for a while by now and was perhaps more like a featured contributor – not included on the “notable contributors” page. :: ''The Criterion'' :: Published October 1922 in London. No ads. Looks like a book from cover to cover. No images. The Waste Land is in the middle of the publication --Elizabeth 09/08/2012 10:53pm | ||
