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Article: Some more echoes of "My Past" in "The Waste Land": 2 lines 111-38, 3 line 252. (T.S. Eliot)
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- January 1, 1998
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Since George L. K. Morris stumbled upon Marie Larisch's My Past (1913) in Provence and published his ground-breaking article (1954) showing its presence in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, critics such as Herbert Knust (1967), B. C. Southam (1968), Grover Smith (1974), James Miller (1977), and recently Robert Schwarz (1988) have drawn many more interesting connections between the two texts. Still, there are several other dormant resonances of My Past in different parts of The Waste Land that seem to suggest more firmly that not only had Eliot met the Countess (V. Eliot 126), he had read her autobiography before the publication of The Waste Land (Morris 231). For an ...