THE
WASTE
LAND
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T. S.
ELIOT
POEM MAP ENDNOTES SOURCES ABOUT

The Waste Land

Lines 253-256

When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.

Eliot's Note

253. V. Goldsmith, the song in The Vicar of Wakefield.

Context

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

References