title: The Annotated Waste Land with Eliots Contemporary Prose: Second Edition
author:  T. S. Eliot 
description: ""The Annotated Waste Land is a nearly indispensable tool for scholars and students alike. With clear, balanced, and well-written scholarship, Lawrence Rainey soothes, with knowledge, our anxiety about approaching Eliot's famously difficult poem and allows us much easier access to the poem's greatness. I raced through the book, cover to cover, with pleasure and profit, and I will, I'm sure, return to it frequently."-Andrew Hudgins, author of "After the Lost War"
zlib_text: T.S. ELIOT
   
   
  THE WASTE LAND
   
  LA TERRE VAGUE
   
  Traduction de Michel Vinaver
   
  
   
  THE WASTE LAND
   
   
  By T. S. Eliot
   
   
   
  “Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis
  vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:
  Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν
  θέλω.”1
   
  For Ezra Pound
  il miglior fabbro2
   
   
   
   
  
  I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
   
  001      April is the cruellest month, breeding
  002      Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  003      Memory and desire, stirring
  004      Dull roots with spring rain.
  005      Winter kept us warm, covering
  006      Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
  007      A little life with dried tubers.
  008      Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee3
  009      With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
  010      And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten4,
  011      And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
  012      Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch.5
  013      And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s,