Inventions of the March Hare: Poems, 1909-1917Harcourt Brace, 1996 - 428 pages A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, T.S. Eliot gave the manuscript to his benefactor in New York, John Quinn. At the same time, he sold to Quinn a notebook containing about fifty poems that he had written during his twenties. It was not until 1968, three years after the poet's death, that the double cache was unveiled within the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The early poems, from the notebook and the accompanying leaves, are now at last published, all but a few of them for the first time. Of great interest, both technical and human, they reveal the young Eliot in the process of creating himself and his art: ruminating on the blind alleys and vacant lots of the city, exploring the perplexities of the modern age (doubt, ennui, indifference, dismay, affectation), and experimenting with a variety of poetic forms (urban pastoral, lyric, satire, the prose poem). Complementing the new poems, which include several bawdy verses, are "richly informative drafts" (The Observer, London) of many of Eliot's best-known poems, among them "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (with a previously unpublished fragment), "Portrait of a Lady" (signally and subtly different from the published text), many versions of "Whispers of Immortality," and "Ode" (not reprinted since 1920). |
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... Columbo went With countenance so placid And Benny filled Columbo's prick With Muriatic Acid . One day the king & queen of Spain They gave a royal banquet Columbo having passed away Was brought in on a blanket The queen she took an ...
... Columbo went With countenance so placid And Benny filled Columbo's prick With Muriatic Acid . One day the king & queen of Spain They gave a royal banquet Columbo having passed away Was brought in on a blanket The queen she took an ...
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... Columbo sat upon the poop A - reading in the psalter . The bosuns wife came up on deck With a bucket full of cowshit Columbo grabbed her round the neck And raped her on the bowsprit . Now when they were three weeks at sea Columbo he ...
... Columbo sat upon the poop A - reading in the psalter . The bosuns wife came up on deck With a bucket full of cowshit Columbo grabbed her round the neck And raped her on the bowsprit . Now when they were three weeks at sea Columbo he ...
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... Columbo and his merry men They went to storm a castle A bullet came along the road And up Columbo's asshole . Columbo grew so angry then He nearly shit his breeches . " Come on , my merry men , " he cried " We'll kill the sons of ...
... Columbo and his merry men They went to storm a castle A bullet came along the road And up Columbo's asshole . Columbo grew so angry then He nearly shit his breeches . " Come on , my merry men , " he cried " We'll kill the sons of ...
Contents
Convictions Curtain Raiser II | 11 |
Goldfish Essence of Summer Magazines | 26 |
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock lines 169 | 39 |
Copyright | |
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1st reading Aiken Alfred Prufrock Appendix Ara Vos Prec Baudelaire Bergson black ink blue ink Bolo Caprice in North Columbo compare Paradise Lost compare Portrait compare Shelley compare Tennyson compare The Love compare The Waste compare TSE Corbière Dante death Debate deleted edition epigraph essay eyes Ezra Pound F. H. Bradley Faber and Faber feel French given Harvard Harvard Advocate Houghton Library Humouresque John Lady Laforgue Laforgue's leaf Letters line-end lines London loose leaves Love Song Mandarins March Hare McKeldin morning Movement in Literature North Cambridge Notebook Oh little voices Paradise Lost perhaps philosophy poet poetry Preludes prose Prufrock's Pervigilium published Review revision rhyming Sebastian Sept sequence stanza street Suite Clownesque Sweeney Symbolist Movement Symons T. S. Eliot Tristan Corbière TSE wrote TSE's TSE's poem typescript Valerie Eliot variant verse W. S. Gilbert Waste Land window Windy Night word written