A Modern Eve: The Typist in T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land

The book reveals the carbuncle gem in the Church of St. Magnus the Martyr, the 1920s London temple in the poem, and how that relates to Eliot's young man carbuncular and the carbuncle eyes of Milton's Satan. That forms part of Eliot's battle with Nietzsche and his superman, the new secular Adam of the future, and the world that creates for the typist. The book shows how the typist of Part III of The Waste Land is linked with Eve, the poet-songstress Sappho, and Aphrodite. It shows the locations in the poem of the Satans of Milton and Baudelaire, the Satanic hero of Romanticism, and Mephistopheles. The poem connects the poetry and music of Sappho, of very ancient origin, to 1920s London, site of the Roman Londinium. See more