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| T 1) - Adonis | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 2) - Aeneas | ||||||
| Reason: Hero of the Aeneid by Virgil. Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 92 | ||||||
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| T 3) - Antonio | ||||||
| Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest | ||||||
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| T 4) - Antony and Cleopatra | ||||||
| Reason: A play by Shakespere, mentioned in Eliot's note to line 77 | ||||||
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| T 5) - Aphrodite | ||||||
| Reason: Greek goddess equivalent to the Roman Venus. Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 6) - Apocalypse of John | ||||||
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| T 7) - Apollinaire, Guillaume | ||||||
| Reason: Apollinaire wrote a play entitled The Breasts of Tiresias. (see line 219.) | ||||||
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| T 8) - Arnold, Matthew | ||||||
| Reason: Wrote Dover Beach. Line 420 has an allusion to Dover Beach. | ||||||
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| T 9) - Artemis | ||||||
| Reason: Compare the Greek goddess Artemis with the Roman Diana. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197 | ||||||
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| T 10) - Attis | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 11) - Augustine, Saint | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 307 | ||||||
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| T 12) - Baudelaire, Charles | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 60 and Eliot's note to line 76 | ||||||
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| T 13) - Belladonna (Atropa belladonna) | ||||||
| Reason: Belladonna, mentioned on line 182 means "beautiful lady" but it is also a poisonous plant. | ||||||
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| T 14) - Bradley, F. H. | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 411 | ||||||
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| T 15) - Buddha | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 308 | ||||||
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| T 16) - Carthage | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 307. | ||||||
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| T 17) - Chaucer, Geoffrey | ||||||
| Reason: Line 1 may be an allusion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. | ||||||
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| T 18) - clairvoyance | ||||||
| Reason: Madame Sosostris was a clairvoyant (line 43.) | ||||||
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| T 19) - Cleopatra | ||||||
| Reason: Line 77 has an allusion to this Shakespearean Character. | ||||||
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| T 20) - Cleopatra VII - Historical figure | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 77 | ||||||
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| T 21) - Conrad, Joseph | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the original quote for the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 22) - Coriolanus - Shakespeare play | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
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| T 23) - Coriolanus, Caius Marcius - Shakespere character | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character. | ||||||
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| T 24) - Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius - Historical figure | ||||||
| Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character. This, though, is the historical Coriolanus. | ||||||
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| T 25) - Cumae | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl mentioned in the poem's epigraph lived in a cave here. | ||||||
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| T 26) - Cupid | ||||||
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| T 27) - currant | ||||||
| Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210. | ||||||
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| T 28) - da Vinci, Leonardo | ||||||
| Reason: Painter of The Mona Lisa, the Lady of the Rocks mentioned on line 182. | ||||||
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| T 29) - Daniel, Arnaut | ||||||
| Reason: The speaker of the quote in Eliot's note to line 427 | ||||||
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| T 30) - Dante | ||||||
| Reason: Author of The Divine Comedy. | ||||||
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| T 31) - Diana | ||||||
| Reason: Compare the Roman goddess Diana with the Greek Artemis. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197 | ||||||
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| T 32) - Dickens, Charles | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the quote that was the original title of the poem. | ||||||
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| T 33) - Dido | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 92 | ||||||
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| T 34) - Divine Comedy, The | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot has many allusions to this work by Dante. | ||||||
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| T 35) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky. | ||||||
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| T 36) - Dryden, John | ||||||
| Reason: Many translations of texts on this site were done by this poet. | ||||||
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| T 37) - Ecclesiastes | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 23 | ||||||
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| T 38) - Eliot, T. S. | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the poem. | ||||||
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| T 39) - Elizabeth I | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 279 | ||||||
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| T 40) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Emerson's elegaric poem Threnody. | ||||||
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| T 41) - Ezekiel, The Book of | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 20 | ||||||
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| T 42) - Ferdinand | ||||||
| Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest | ||||||
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| T 43) - Frazer, Sir James George | ||||||
| Reason: Author of Golden Bough, mentioned in Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 44) - Gallipoli Campaign | ||||||
| Reason: Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 199 | ||||||
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| T 45) - Garibaldi, Giuseppe | ||||||
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| T 46) - Gethsemane | ||||||
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| T 47) - Goldsmith, Oliver | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 253 | ||||||
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| T 48) - Gospel | ||||||
| Reason: Many allusions are made to the Gospels. | ||||||
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| T 49) - Gospel According to Luke | ||||||
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| T 50) - Gospel According to Matthew | ||||||
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| T 51) - Habsburg, House of | ||||||
| Reason: The archduke mentioned on line 13 was a member of the imperial house of Habsburg. | ||||||
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| T 52) - Hamlet | ||||||
| Reason: Line 172 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
| T 53) - Hesse, Hermann | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 | ||||||
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| T 54) - Holy Grail | ||||||
| Reason: Jesse Weston's From Ritual to Romance was partly about the myth of the Holy Grail. | ||||||
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| T 55) - Homer | ||||||
| Reason: In the Odyssey Homer had Odysseus visit Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 56) - horoscope | ||||||
| Reason: Madame Sosostris will deliver a horoscope (line 58.) | ||||||
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| T 57) - Huxley, Aldous | ||||||
| Reason: Line 43 has an allusion to a character in a novel by Huxley. | ||||||
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| T 58) - hyacinth | ||||||
| Reason: The hyacinth girl mentioned on line 36 was given this flower. | ||||||
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| T 59) - Hyacinthus | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to this mythical character. | ||||||
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| T 60) - Imagist | ||||||
| Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry | ||||||
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| T 61) - Izmir | ||||||
| Reason: Izmir is the new name for Smyrna. Mentioned on line 209. | ||||||
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| T 62) - Jacobean tragedy | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot alludes to several works of this type. | ||||||
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| T 63) - James, Henry | ||||||
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| T 64) - Kyd, Thomas | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 431 | ||||||
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| T 65) - Leicester, (Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester) | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 279 | ||||||
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| T 66) - Leman (Lac Leman, Lake Geneva) | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 182. | ||||||
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| T 67) - Lesbos | ||||||
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| T 68) - lilac | ||||||
| Reason: Lilacs are mentioned on line 002 . | ||||||
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| T 69) - London Bridge - bridge | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 426. | ||||||
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| T 70) - London Bridge - children's singing game | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 426. | ||||||
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| T 71) - London Docklands | ||||||
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| T 72) - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | ||||||
| Reason: Longfellow supplied some of the Dante translations. | ||||||
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| T 73) - Ludwig II (King of Bavaria) | ||||||
| Reason: Line 8 has an allusion to the death of this King. | ||||||
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| T 74) - Magnus, Albertus | ||||||
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| T 75) - Marvell, Andrew | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 196 | ||||||
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| T 76) - Middleton, Thomas | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 138. Note also that Part II is titled A Game of Chess. This is the title of another play by Thomas Middleton. | ||||||
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| T 77) - Milton, John | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 98 | ||||||
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| T 78) - Munich | ||||||
| Reason: Locale of some places mentioned in Part I. | ||||||
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| T 79) - Mylae, Battle of | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 70. | ||||||
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| T 80) - Myth | ||||||
| Reason: The Waste Land has allusions to many myths. | ||||||
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| T 81) - Naiad | ||||||
| Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
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| T 82) - Nereid | ||||||
| Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
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| T 83) - Nerval, Gérard de | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 429 | ||||||
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| T 84) - Nightingale - Old World | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 100. | ||||||
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| T 85) - Nightingale Thrush - New World | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 357 | ||||||
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| T 86) - Nymph | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 175. | ||||||
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| T 87) - Odin | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 46 | ||||||
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| T 88) - Odysseus | ||||||
| Reason: Odysseus visited Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 89) - Oedipus | ||||||
| Reason: Tiresias was a character in Sopocles' Oedipus, the King (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 90) - oracle | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae mentioned in the poem's epigraph was an oracle. | ||||||
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| T 91) - Osiris | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 92) - Ovid | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 218 | ||||||
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| T 93) - Pater, Walter Horatio | ||||||
| Reason: Author of an essay alluded to by "the Lady of the Rocks" mentioned on line 49. | ||||||
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| T 94) - Perceval | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 202 | ||||||
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| T 95) - Petronius Arbiter, Gaius | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the Satyricon a quote of which appears in the the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 96) - Phoebus Apollo | ||||||
| Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Hyacinthus. | ||||||
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| T 97) - Phoenicia | ||||||
| Reason: Phlebas was a Phoenician (line 312.) | ||||||
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| T 98) - Pope, Alexander | ||||||
| Reason: Deleted section of the poem was written in the style of this poet. Also, many translations of texts on this site were done by Pope. | ||||||
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| T 99) - Pound, Ezra | ||||||
| Reason: The poem was edited by Pound and dedicated to him. | ||||||
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| T 100) - Psalms | ||||||
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| T 101) - ragtime | ||||||
| Reason: Line 128 has an allusion to The Shakespearean Rag. | ||||||
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| T 102) - raisin | ||||||
| Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210. | ||||||
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| T 103) - resurrection | ||||||
| Reason: The Golden Bough tells of many myths of resurrection, some of which were incorporated into The Waste Land. | ||||||
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| T 104) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques | ||||||
| Reason: Line 182 has an allusion to Rousseau weeping at Lac Leman. | ||||||
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| T 105) - Russell, Bertrand | ||||||
| Reason: Russell was a financial supporter of Eliot and possibly intimate with his first wife. | ||||||
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| T 106) - Saint John | ||||||
| Reason: The draft had an allusion to Saint John (see line 56.) | ||||||
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| T 107) - Sanskrit language | ||||||
| Reason: Line 433 is in Sanskrit. | ||||||
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| T 108) - Sanskrit literature | ||||||
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| T 109) - Sappho | ||||||
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| T 110) - Sermon on the Mount | ||||||
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| T 111) - Shackleton, Sir Ernest | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 360 | ||||||
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| T 112) - Shakespeare, William | ||||||
| Reason: There are many allusions to plays by Shakespeare. | ||||||
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| T 113) - Sibyl | ||||||
| Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae is the subject of the poem's epigraph. | ||||||
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| T 114) - Smyrna | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 209. | ||||||
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| T 115) - Sophocles | ||||||
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| T 116) - Spenser, Edmund | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 176 | ||||||
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| T 117) - Stevenson, Robert Louis | ||||||
| Reason: Author of a possible allusion for line 221 | ||||||
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| T 118) - Symbolist movement | ||||||
| Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry | ||||||
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| T 119) - Tammuz | ||||||
| Reason: Compare with the gods mentioned in Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 120) - Tarot | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 46 | ||||||
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| T 121) - Tereus | ||||||
| Reason: Part of the Philomela myth mentioned in Eliot's note to line 99 | ||||||
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| T 122) - Thames, River | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 176 (and others). | ||||||
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| T 123) - The Brothers Karamazov | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky. | ||||||
| T 124) - The Tempest | ||||||
| Reason: Line 48 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play. | ||||||
| T 125) - Thebes | ||||||
| Reason: Tiresias sat by Thebes below the wall (see line 245.) | ||||||
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| T 126) - Tiresias | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 218 | ||||||
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| T 127) - Tristan and Isolde | ||||||
| Reason: Legend used by Wagner for his opera, lines from which appear in the poem at lines 31-34 and line 42 | ||||||
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| T 128) - Upanishad | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 401 | ||||||
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| T 129) - Veda | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 401 | ||||||
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| T 130) - Venus | ||||||
| Reason: Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note. | ||||||
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| T 131) - Verlaine, Paul | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 202 | ||||||
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| T 132) - Virgil | ||||||
| Reason: Author of the Aeneid mentioned in Eliot's note to line 92 Fictional guide of Dante in The Divine Comedy | ||||||
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| T 133) - Wagner, Richard | ||||||
| Reason: There are several allusions to operas by Wagner. | ||||||
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| T 134) - Webster, John | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 74 and Eliot's note to line 118 and Eliot's note to line 407 | ||||||
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| T 135) - Wheel of Life | ||||||
| Reason: Mentioned on line 320. | ||||||
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| T 136) - Whitman, Walt | ||||||
| Reason: There may be several allusions to poems by Whitman. | ||||||
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| T 137) - Wittelsbach, House of | ||||||
| Reason: The Marie mentioned on line 15 was a member of Bavaria's house of Wittelsbach. | ||||||
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| T 138) - Wren, Sir Christopher | ||||||
| Reason: Eliot's note to line 264 | ||||||
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