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London) of many of Eliot's best-known poems, among them "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (with a previously unpublished fragment), "Portrait of a Lady" (signally and subtly different from the published text), many versions of "Whispers of Immortality," and "Ode" (not reprinted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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Page 111
... street : compare Preludes 1 11 : ' And at the corner of the street ' . Compare Apollinaire , La Chanson du Mal - Aimé 16 ( May 1909 ) : ' Au tournant d'une rue brûlant ' ; 7 has ' mains dans les poches ' ( TSE , 11 , ' Hand in pocket ...
... street : compare Preludes 1 11 : ' And at the corner of the street ' . Compare Apollinaire , La Chanson du Mal - Aimé 16 ( May 1909 ) : ' Au tournant d'une rue brûlant ' ; 7 has ' mains dans les poches ' ( TSE , 11 , ' Hand in pocket ...
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... streets : compare The Death of Saint Narcissus 18 : ' If he walked in city streets ' . Given the title Silence , contrast Aunt Helen 4-5 : Now when she died there was silence in heaven And silence at her end of the street . Along the city ...
... streets : compare The Death of Saint Narcissus 18 : ' If he walked in city streets ' . Given the title Silence , contrast Aunt Helen 4-5 : Now when she died there was silence in heaven And silence at her end of the street . Along the city ...
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... street Held in a lunar synthesis And all the lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of the memory And all its clear relations , Its divisions , Definite precisions . Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum And ...
... street Held in a lunar synthesis And all the lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of the memory And all its clear relations , Its divisions , Definite precisions . Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum And ...
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