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Happy editing! :Jay8g [V•T•E] 23:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to The Waste Land, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Ligaturama (talk) 11:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Ligaturama,

Thanks for your message.

In fact the material is published, so that I can "cite reliable, published sources that are directly related to the topic of the article and directly support the material being presented." The dilemma is that it is in my own published works, and I don't want to appear vainglorious. Principally, A Modern Eve: The Typist in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, ISBN 978-1-7385265-0-5, and supported by a book of essays The Primal Chorus of the Sacred Wood, ISBN 978-1-7385265-1-2. I will publish a third book on the same poem early in 2025.

So the question posed to you is, how do I address this to (a) satisfy Wikipedia (b) be seen to be properly scholarly and impartial? As you can see, all the added material is supported by external references to external works of scholarship, the result of research for a thesis. So that you understand the quality of this research, here are extracts from professorial examiners remarks on the thesis on The Waste Land that informs the books (MAR - Master of Arts by Research, Durham, 62,000 words, 2020).

"The examiners were greatly impressed by the erudition of the thesis, and by its patient, intelligent explication of the many images and allusions connecting the work of T. S. Eliot to the Church of St Magnus the Martyr."

"This is an excellent piece of scholarship: lively, subtle, illuminating and rigorous."

"In addition to the good work undertaken here in situating The Waste Land within a continuum of ideas and debates, the thesis also undertakes a kind of critical detective work that compellingly and convincingly illuminates key aspects of the poem through an investigation of the role and influence of the reredos of the Church of St Magnus the Martyr. One of the most admirable features of this thesis is the manner in which it weaves a very meticulous and perceptive reading of the physical space of the church into the analysis of key touchstones in the poetry."

"The thesis takes its bearings from images associated with the Church of St Magnus the Martyr, offering a sustained meditation on how each of these images reverberates throughout The Waste Land and Eliot’s other work. The images are presented very helpfully and attractively in photographs, and the thesis also draws on historical documents associated with the church, including these in the extensive appendices. As an example of how the thesis proceeds, it is worth noting the significance given to the portrait of the first high priest, Aaron, who is depicted in the reredos wearing a carbuncle gem on the sacred Breastplate of Judgement. The thesis notes the striking connection with the arrival of ‘the young man carbuncular’ in ‘The Fire Sermon’ and also with the carbuncle eyes of Milton’s Satan, persuasively showing how the poem is alert to both the sacred and profane, the precious and debased, connotations of the word ‘carbuncle’ ... what gives the thesis its originality and distinctiveness is the systematic and comprehensive way in which it develops a reading of The Waste Land based on the tightly integrated symbolism of Magnus Martyr."

I do realise this may present you with a dilemma. I am happy to send the full thesis report from Durham if you wish - A grade, passed without corrections or further examination. I couldn't have done the research without Wikipedia.

You can see the books for sale on Amazon and Alep Press.

aleppress

A Modern Eve: The Typist in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: Amazon.co.uk: 9781738526505: Books

I hope this assists you, and do please come back to me with any further queries or advice.

Best

Bill WKBrannigan (talk) 12:21, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello Ligaturama,

I have now directed the reader to published sources in the footnotes (my book) in as light-touch a way as possible. All of the information I have posted to the page is contained in that book, including the quotes from other scholarly works.

I am happy to send a copy of the book to yourself or anyone else, if Wiki want to check the accuracy of what I say.

I have not removed the maintenance panel as I am hoping that you will do so once you've checked the update.

Thanks

Bill WKBrannigan (talk) 17:12, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I've replied to you over on the talk page as it seems a more appropriate place for this kind of discussion: Talk:The_Waste_Land#Recent_additions_on_the_Church_of_St_Magnus_the_Martyr Ligaturama (talk) 11:29, 18 October 2024 (UTC)