Chaucer's Dante in Eliot's "Waste Land" and Other Observations.
- Author / Editor
- Murphy, Russell E.
Chaucer's Dante in Eliot's "Waste Land" and Other Observations.
- Published
- Yeats Eliot Review 28.1–2 (2011): 3-29.
- Description
- Reconsiders CT as the source of the opening line of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," exploring intertextual relations with the opening of Dante's "Divine Comedy" as well. Also clarifies the importance of Chaucer's role in the English tradition of translating Dante and argues that Eliot, aware of this role, alludes to Chaucer's (MkT 7.2407ff.) as well as to Dante's Ugolino in his reference to the key turning in the door ("The Waste Land," 412).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General
Monk and His Tale