The links above will shuttle you to a hypertext version of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot and supporting materials including annotations, a map of locations in the poem, and links to many of Eliot's sources. Several hypertext versions of The Waste Land already exist. The version presented on this site seeks to include links to relevant supplementary material with minimal disruption to the text of the poem itself.

Three kinds of annotation are included:

(1) Supplementary information about people, places, and phrases in the poem, accessed via links in the text. Links are unmarked, but most people names and place names and foreign language bits and the like have additional info available. Links turn blue on mouseover.

(2) Eliot's own annotations to the text, which can be accessed by clicking the blue line numbers.

(3) Definitions. Only a handful words have definitions attached. If a definition for a given word is available, the word will turn pink on mouseover and a yellow box containing the definition will appear.

The site displays properly in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and both desktop and mobile versions of Safari. Internet Explorer does not work so well, although I hope to address that issue soon.

Contact me at adam at windingway.org.

Updates (2011.05.20)