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Subject: The Waste Land Dedication
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: boobbung-ga
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Posted: 11 Dec 2002 10:28 PST
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Question ID: 123138
In T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to whom is the dedication written, in
what language is it written, and what does the dedication say?
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Subject: Re: The Waste Land Dedication
Answered By: scriptor-ga on 11 Dec 2002 11:47 PST
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
Dear boobbung,

The dedictaion to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922) reads:

For Ezra Pound,
il miglior fabbro.

1. The person to whom the dedication is written is the American poet
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). To find out more about Pound, please follow
this link to a biography and list of his works:

The Academy of American Poets: Ezra Pound
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=162&CFID=14430107&CFTOKEN=3469251

2. While the first part of the dedication, "For Ezra Pound", is
written in English, the second part, "il miglior fabbro", is Italian.

3. The Italian part says: "the better craftsman". This line is a
quotation from Dante Aligheri's (1256-1321) "Divine Comedy" (Purgatory
XXVI,117), where Dante pays tribute to the Provencal (= southern
French) poet Arnaut Daniel as "the better craftsman of the mother
tongue."

Sources:

Notes on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), by Sean M. Donnell, 2002
http://www.elcamino.cc.ca.us/Faculty/sdonnell/waste_land.htm

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965): The Waste Land
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mallinic/314/fall00/eliot_notes.html

Poets' Corner: Bookshelf - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, by Stephen L.
Spanoudis, 2002
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/poems/eliot01.html

Sybil_N: Il miglior fabbro (in Google Cache!)
://www.google.de/search?q=cache:6BKP2cSqb4QC:people.a2000.nl/avanarum/Waste_notes/fabbro_N.htm+%22il+miglior+fabbro%22,+dante&hl=de&ie=UTF-8

Denny's presents the Speakers: Dante's Biography
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/IPHS/Projects/carletonminihan/Pages/Dantebio.htm

Search terms used:
Eliot "The Waste Land" dedication:
://www.google.de/search?q=Eliot+%22The+Waste+Land%22+dedication&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&start=10&sa=N
Eliot "The Waste Land":
"il miglior fabbro", dante:
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=%22il+miglior+fabbro%22%2C+dante&meta=
"dante aligheri" biography:
://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=%22dante+aligheri%22+biography&meta=

Hope this answers your question!
Regards,
Scriptor
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