T. S. Eliot's Allusive Technique: Chaucer, Virgil, Pope

Author / Editor
Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.

Title
T. S. Eliot's Allusive Technique: Chaucer, Virgil, Pope

Published
Renascence 35.3 (1983): 167-82.

Description
Reads the allusions to Chaucer's GP, Virgil's "Aeneid," and, most extensively, Pope's "Rape of the Lock" in Eliot's "The Waste Land" as signals to his rejection of the "Classical/Christian tradition."

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion