Sources referred to in Eliot's notes are given here. Full texts are provided where available and are drawn primarily from university websites and Google books.


Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. (Full text - Website Details)

Augustine. Confessions. (Full text - Website Details)

Baudelaire, Charles. Fleurs du mal. (Full text - Website Details)

Bradley, F. H. Appearance and Reality. (Full text - Edition Details)

Day, John. “Parliament of Bees.” (Full text - Edition Details)

de Nerval, Gerard. “El Desdichado.” (Full text - Edition Details)

Froude. J. A. History of England, Vol. 7. (Full Text - Edition Details)

Frazer, J. G. The Golden Bough. (Full text - Edition Details)

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. (Full text - Edition Details)

Hesse, Hermann. Blick ins chaos. (English full text unavailable)

Kyd, Thomas. Spanish Tragedy. (Full text - Edition Details)

Marvell, Andrew. “To His Coy Mistress.” (Full text - Website Details)

Middleton, Thomas. Women Beware Women. (Full text - Edition Details)

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. (Full text - Website Details)

Ovid. Metamorphoses. (Full text - Website Details)

Petronius, Gaius. The Satyricon. (Full text - Edition Details)

Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. (Full text - Website Details)

Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. (Full text - Website Details)

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. (Full text - Website Details)

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. (Full text - Website Details)

Spenser, Edmund. “Prothalamion.” (Full text - Website Details)

Tiberianus. “Pervigilium Veneris.” (Full text - Edition Details)

Verlaine, Paul. “Parsifal.” (Full text - Edition Details)

Virgil. Aeneid. (Full text - Website Details)

Wagner, Richard. Götterdämmerung. (Full text - Edition Details)

Wagner, Richard. Tristan und Isolde. (Full text - Edition Details)

Webster, John. The Devil's Law Case. (Full text - Edition Details)

Webster, John. The White Devil. (Full text - Edition Details)

Weston, Jessie L. From Ritual to Romance. (Full text - Edition Details)


The Bible. (Full Text - Website Details)

"The Fire Sermon" (Excerpt - Edition Details)

The Upanishads. (Excerpt - Edition Details)


ELIOT, Valerie (ed.) The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound. (Excerpt - Edition Details)

NORTH, Michael (ed.) The Waste Land. (Edition Details)