Volume 17, Number 8 · November 18, 1971
The First Waste Land—II
By Edmund Wilson
There has always been curiosity about the early version of T. S. Eliot's Waste Land, submitted to Ezra Pound and to some extent altered by Eliot in accordance with Pound's suggestions. One had always imagined that it must have been preserved among the papers of John Quinn, the rich New York lawyer who acted as a patron to Eliot and acquired many of his manuscripts. This suspicion has turned out to have been correct. The manuscript has been found by a niece of Mr. Quinn's, Mrs. Thomas F. Conroy, who has sold it with other manuscripts to the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library; and it has now been published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: The Waste Land, A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound, edited by Valerie Eliot.
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