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- Title
After the Imagination of Our Own Hearts: Biblical Prophecy and The Waste Land.
- Authors
Richardson, John
- Abstract
The article offers a poetry criticism of the poem "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot. It explores the assumptions of the desert of vegetation myth and the drought desert, as emphasized in the prophecy of the Old Testament. It also emphasized on the types of magico-religious rituals which include human sacrifice and sexual intercourse with a living victim. The author represents the desert as the Hebrews pursuit of false gods.
- Subjects
WASTE Land, The (Poem : Eliot); ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; BIBLICAL prophecies; OLD Testament; HUMAN sacrifice in literature; GODS
- Publication
English: The Journal of the English Association, 1999, Vol 48, Issue 192, p187
- ISSN
0013-8215
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1093/english/48.192.187