| | Who Wasted Which Land, by Dennis M. Hammes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Eliot himself in 1922, is at least occasionally an exhibit of the "stream-of- consciousness" method of writing developed by Joyce a generation earlier and elevated to the ridiculous by Woolfe a generation later. |
 | | The method has lent itself to fiction, the essay, and poetry indiscriminately perhaps because it is the method of indiscrimination. |
 | | And that is what makes "The Waste Land" peculiar in a body of work so otherwise orthodox, for the indiscrimination of "stream of consciousness" is the precise antithesis to the deliberated construction that is the Romantic image, no matter what it is the image of. |
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