467 TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
The History of Literature
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Elliot's Collage
Elliot was a big city dweller. He lived in London when it was really kind of the capital of the world both culturally and economically. In order to get through the day you basically have to become the master collages of your own environment. So that's why Elliot never had to even think in terms of collage I've never come across a reference to collage in Elliot's writing so I keep thinking there must be one somewhere.
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