millionsmillions:

Why is it “The Waste Land” and not “The Wasteland”?

[Photo: Ezra Pound’s edits of T. S. Eliot’s original.]

Also noted herein, Whitman’s “tentative plural: ‘The United States are destined …’” Not ‘The United States is …,’ and in that tentative plural, a politics of plurality and multiplicity. 

Also, April remains the cruellest month …