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"Better Craftsmen, Not Gods" is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Written in dialogue between them, scholar Tyler Malone and digital archive editor Robert Eric Shoemaker track the development of "The Waste Land" through manuscript versions and editorial correspondence among Eliot and his collaborators. The exhibit also addresses the personalities, prejudices, and politics that influence the legacy of poets who, for good and for ill, became canonical through their influence on others.
Subjects or Themes
Literature, Modernism, Art, Editing
Project Language(s)
English
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Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Literary History, Images, Artifacts, Text, Criticism, Teacher Resources, Exhibition
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Tyler Malone, Robert Eric Shoemaker, and the Poetry Foundation
Year(s)
2022-2023
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
The Poetry Foundation
Software Employed
Labor and Support
Created for the 100th anniversary of "The Waste Land"
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
The exhibit curators thank Carolyn Vega of the New York Public Library; Peter London of HarperCollins; and Francesca Wade, a scholar who assisted at the Yale Beinecke Library, for their invaluable help and support in researching this exhibit.