| Evidence: | Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beauty & force of phrase: symmetry; & tensity. What connects it together, I'm not so sure. But he read till he had to rush -- letters to write about the London Magazine -- & discussion thus was curtailed. One was left, however, with some strong emotion. The Waste Land, it is called'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 18 Jun 1922 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 26 Sep 1888 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Virginia Woolf |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| Title: | The Waste Land |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18197 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
| Editor: | Anne Olivier Bell | |
| Title: | The Diary of Virginia Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 178 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The Diary of Virginia Woolf (London, 1978), 2, p. 178, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18197, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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