Compositional process and critical product

Robinson, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7903-5438 (2022) Compositional process and critical product. In: Matthews, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0296-5298 (ed.) The Waste Land after one hundred years. Essays and Studies (75). Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 157-178. ISBN 9781843846369

Abstract/Summary

This is a chapter from a collection on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land on the occasion of its centenary. It argues that the significance of the poem, its successes and failures, can be better understood by returning to its process of composition so as to get behind and beyond the monolith of its production as a critically received completed work.