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Marjorie Perloff, « Eliot’s Pound Moment: Citationality in The Waste Land », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10670/1.00ln79
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The Waste Land is, as everyone knows, a collage of allusions to texts in other languages, ranging from Greek and Latin to German, French, Italian, and even Sanskrit in the poem’s dramatic conclusion. But although the main allusions have long been identified and their thematic import endlessly explicated and discussed, there is one question that has been oddly slighted: when and why does T. S. Eliot cite a line or passage in the original language and when does he translate it? Line 307, for e...