T.S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song” in The Waste Land is taken from:
Prothalamion supplies the refrain that Eliot reuses in The Waste Land. The borrowing brings the celebratory river setting of Spenser’s poem into a contrasting modern context.
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T.S. Eliot’s line “Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song” in The Waste Land is taken from:
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Prothalamion supplies the refrain that Eliot reuses in The Waste Land. The borrowing brings the celebratory river setting of Spenser’s poem into a contrasting modern context.
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Kerala SET (LBS Centre)