![]() ![]() ‘The Waste Land’ was not a term paper, and poets have always alluded to each other and drawn on a common stock of images and themes. But in any case plagiarism is a violation of academic norms, not of poetic norms. Eliot uses these quotations transformatively, altering some of them, and placing them in new and ironic contexts.ĭoes this use of sources and quotations amount to plagiarism? Plagiarism is copying without attribution, and Eliot’s notes to the poem give the attributions. The poem also quotes many phrases and lines from other works, amounting to about 40 lines of the poem’s 433. Weston’s book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance. ![]() Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’ was plagiarised.Įliot claimed that the title, theme and imagery of ‘ The Waste Land’ came from the medieval legend of the Fisher King: Over on the Literature Stack Exchange, user ‘Rand al’Thor’ asked for an analysis of the claims that T. To what extent are these claims justified? Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’ was plagiarised from Madison Cawein and from James Joyce. ◀ King Cnut and the tide ✴ ✴ Hy, Zy, Hine… ▶ ![]()
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