ABSTRACT
The great literary critic R.P. Blackmur quotes and remarks on this material from The Waste Land:
The exegetes tell us, and it is true, that we are in the Chapel Perilous and the Perilous Cemetery is no doubt near at hand, and it may be as one of the exegetes says that we hear something like the voice of John the Baptist in the last line. But for myself, I muse and merge and ache and find myself feeling with the very senses of my thought greetings and cries from all the senses there are.
(Blackmur 1967: 57)