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    "I couldn't easily distil the important points to understand what's going on here." People trying to work up a storm in a teacup and willing to misrepresent what Eliot was doing ...
    – Tsundoku
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 16:07
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    LOL: "T.S. Eliot, one of the best-known American poets, plagiarized much of his work “The Waste Land” which, according to the Cracked article was “Most of ‘The Waste Land’ was just cobbled together out of quotes from other writers,” which is a fairly apt description." Any cobbler who end up creating The Waste Land is a master-builder in my books. And if we going to talk about cobbling from others, surely Joyce out plagiarises Eliot!
    – fundagain
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 16:54
  • Of course Joyce has always complained that Eliot plagiarised The Waste Land directly from Ulysses...
    – fundagain
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 16:56
  • I am going to upvote this question, because if this rubbish is in the public domain it should be examined, and this is the best site to deal with this.
    – fundagain
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 17:05
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    Are you interested specifically in accusations from Eliot's lifetime or later "discoveries"?
    – Tsundoku
    Commented Apr 5, 2019 at 18:19