W&M ScholarWorks Undergraduate Honors Theses Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 5-2020 Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land Angela Rose Granados West Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, Celtic Studies Commons, European History Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, Other Classics Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation West, Angela Rose Granados, "Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land" (2020). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 1527. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1527 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Department of English from The College of William and Mary by Angela Rose Granados West Accepted for Honors Henry Hart ________________________________________ Henry Hart, Thesis Director Christopher MacGowan ________________________________________ Christopher MacGowan, Committee Chair ________________________________________ Suzanne Raitt ________________________________________ Leisa Meyer Williamsburg, VA May 8, 2020 West 2 INTRODUCTION When The Waste Land was published in 1922, it marked the end of seven and a half years of T.S. Eliot’s attempts to match the potency of his most significant work to date: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” In the interlude between his two greatest works, Eliot had married, settled quite permanently in England, and begun to fear that his potential as a poet, once so promising, was all for naught.