The death of Europe / Hugh Kenner -- Imagism and its consequences / Graham Hough -- The first Waste land / Richard Ellmann -- The waste land and the Descensus ad inferos / Bernard F. Dick -- T. S. Eliot and the Carthaginian peace / Eleanor Cook -- The structure and mythical method of The waste land / Grover Smith -- Discovering the corpus / Gregory S. Jay -- Eliot, Russell, and Whitman: realism, politics, and literary persona in The waste land / Cleo McNelly Kearns.