Prologue: A curious shudder -- An interpretation suppressed: amazement and disgust -- Faint clews and indirections: The sub-surface life -- Critical theory: escaping personality -- exorcising demons -- A suppressed "Ode": confessional poem -- Memory and desire: "Burial of the dead" -- In the cage: "A game of chess" -- In rats' alley: "The fire sermon" -- Suffering a sea-change: "Death by water" -- A moment's surrender: "What the thunder said" -- Funerals and farewells: "Exequy" and Elegy" -- A kind of valediction: a familiar compoung ghost -- Making The waste land mean -- Letting The waste land be.
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