The Waste Land and Ash Wednesday

allusions Ash Wednesday audience belief biography Brooks Bush character Christian civilisation consciousness contemporary Craig Dante Dante's death despair Duncan Jones edition Eliot criticism Eliot's poetry emotional Empson English essay exile experience F. O. Matthiessen F. R. Leavis facsimile feeling Fisher King Four Quartets fragments Gerontion gives the poem Grail legend Grover Smith 1983 I. A. Richards idea images impersonal poet impotence insists intellectual interpretation Jessie Weston Kenner kind lady language Leavis leopards literary London looks marriage Matthiessen meaning mind Modern Poetry myth narrative nature notes pattern Pinkney poet's poetic point of view Pound present problem Prufrock published R. P. Blackmur reader recalls recognise references religion religious poet reminds seems sense sexual shows social sources spiritual Stead story suggests symbols T. S. Eliot Tarot pack theme Tiresias tradition unity Verdenal vision Vita Nuova Vivienne voices Waste Land Williamson 1953 words writing written