…about the wasteland and the grail legend, and this is not going to be an easy thing to present. The wasteland of t s Eliot Refers his theme to Jessie Weston's Famous book from way way back in the early 20s from ritual to romance where she shows that…

…roles and positions they haven't earned them and this is the situation of the waste land: everybody leading a false life. T s Eliot picked that up you see, in his poem the waste land, and he actually quotes several lines from wolfram's parsifal. And it's…

…I must say was tremendous for me in the world of poetry w e b Yeats has the messages, it seems to me, and t s Eliot in a somewhat more stilted way I feel that he knew about them but didn't feel them quite the way these other men did. Those are…

…roles and positions they haven't earned them and this is the situation of the wasteland: everybody leading a false life. T s Eliot picked that up you see in his poem the wasteland, and he actually quotes several lines from wolfram's Percival. And it's a…

…I must say was tremendous for me in the world of poetry, w b Yeats he has the messages, it seems to me and t s Eliot in a somewhat more stilted way I feel that he knew about them but didn't feel them quite the way these other men did. Those are…

…for the redeeming hero, the carrier of the shining blade whose blow, whose touch, whose existence will liberate the land, as t s Eliot tells us in the wasteland. Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit. There is not even silence in the mountains, but…

…since your departure there have been four iron bands around my heart. This is the wasteland motif, the drowned man motif that Eliot speaks of in the wasteland. So bang, bang, there are three more bangs and that means that the restricting killing thing has…

…quest had failed. It is through our spontaneous life and the leading of that that we can save our society. Now when t s Eliot picks up the idea of wasteland for our society it's simply this of people doing things they're told to do, people going into…

…of what might be called a spiritual church. Now the next important idea in all of this: the idea of the waste land. T s Eliot wrote a poem around 1925 or so called the waste land and it's based on Wolfram Von Eschenbach's idea of the waste land. He…

…it the King is brought in on a litter. He can neither stand nor sit, nor lie. Do you know that line from t s Eliot the wasteland he takes it right out of wolfram Von Eschenbach here one can neither sit nor stand right now. And the boy. Here's the…

…life into what is known as the waste land. The waste land is the preliminary theme to which the grail is the answer. Now t s Eliot in 1924 five or six in there and his key poem, the waste land. What is the sense of the waste land in Medieval Terms…

…to new generations of thinkers, but to some of the greatest artists of the past century. In the next program Joe will explore how these ideas would influence the myth making work of authors such as t Eliot S, James Joyce and in particular, Thomas Mann.

…life into what is known as the wasteland. The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the grail is the answer. Now t s Eliot in 1924 five or six in there, had his key poem, the wasteland. What is the sense of the wasteland in Medieval Terms and…

…or six in there, had his key poem, the wasteland. What is the sense of the wasteland in Medieval Terms and in t s Eliot Terms it's exactly the same sense. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives, doing what they're supposed to do in the 12th…

…it the King is brought in on a litter. He can neither stand nor sit nor lie. Do you know that line from t s Eliot the wasteland? He takes it right out of wolfram Von Eschenbach. Here one can neither sit nor stand right now. And the boy here's the…

…tantra, it's good Buddhism. Going to temple is quite secondary. Our religious life is here now, and this is the idea that Eliot was trying to incorporate in the cocktail party. That is the ritual of relationship, and it's through relationship. This is the…