TS Elliot's The Waste Land

[Morrisonker]

Does anyone know of any good essays or books about this poem that would help me out. I have an essay due for the 3 week in march and I'd like any books you've read and personally recommend rather than blindly going to the library. I'm studying at Honors Level in University by the way so I'd like something that isn't too simplistic.

[janesmythe22]

A guide to the selected poems of TS Eliot by BC Southam

[MikeMikeMike]

If you go on the MLA catalogue (there'll be links somewhere on your library's catalogue and type in Eliot and Waste Lnd, there'll be loads of recent articles, many of which you should be able to download straight from the site or find in your library journals. They're much shorter than books, normally a maximum of about 20-30 pages long, and they're also pretty up to date, so you won't be reading defunct criticism from thirty years ago which nobody cares about any more.

[MikeMikeMike]

In fact, I just did that and there are 834 articles. Obviously that's a bit much, but if you have an idea of what you want to talk about then just input some more keywords to narrow it down a little more. Here's the link:

http://web6.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/111/1/1/ purl=rc6_MLA?sw_aep=jrycal5

[Aschenbach]

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/eliot/

[davver]

I know this question no longer applies, but just in case anyone has found this by searching:

The Casebook is obviously a good place to start.
The Reader's Guide to TSEliot by George Williamson has been indispensible for students and critics alike since 1955!
Check out Exploring the Wasteland by R Parker http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore6.html very useful indeed.
Try the Cambridge Companion, ed. by David Moody, as that's pretty good as well.