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- The Grail Myth - medieval tale about Jesus’s challis - a landscape suffering from baroness - obtaining a grail can cure the wasteland, eternal youth (something that doesn’t exist) - our lives are meaningless., but perhaps we can find redemption “Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Macmillan). Indeed, so deeply am I indebted, Miss Weston's book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart from the great interest of the book itself) to any who think such elucidation of the poem worth the trouble. To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general, one which has influenced our generation profoundly; I mean The Golden Bough; I have used especially the two volumes Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Anyone who is acquainted with these works will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies.” - Eliot’s notes to ‘The Waste Land’ - edited heavily by Ezra Pound - could be read as antisemitic