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The Waste Land Manuscript: The Textual Approach

This paper uses the textual approach to The Waste Land manuscript which T. S. Eliot produced during his three months' sick-leave in Margate and Lausanne. The letters exchanged between Eliot and Pound reveal that as a sage homme Ezra Pound performed his Caesarian Operation on The Waste Land manuscript including the typescript. Both Eliot's revision of and Pound's blue pencilling on The Waste Land manuscript reduced the poem to about half its original size, down to 433 lines, and added the fourth Phlebas section to its four structural sections. In addition, title names were changed from "He Do the Police in Different Voices" into "The Waste Land" and from "In the Cage" into "A Game of Chess." A close comparison of the 1971 edition of The Waste Land manuscript and the final 1961 edition of The Waste Land reveals the following deletions: the Fresca passage, the lengthy lines of "Death by Water," the satellite poems, etc., resulting in a masterpiece of modernism in the 20th century. In conclusion, the final edition of The Waste Land that evolved from the original The Waste Land manuscript is the culmination of the persistent and painstaking collaboration of Eliot, the Old Possum, and Pound, il miglior fabbro.