G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of twenty-two books and co-editor of three others, many of them published by Palgrave Macmillan. He now lives in Greenville, SC, and continues to write.

• Preface 1. Introductory Essay: True Wit and 'the Really New' 2. In Other Words, Death by Water, or 'The Burial of the Dead': The New Verse of The Waste Land 3. The Word and Other Words: Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems 4. Restored in the New Verse of Four Quartets: The 'Ancient Rhyme' of Incarnation 5. A Short Essay concerning Literary Knowledge Bibliography

G. Douglas Atkins is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Kansas, USA, where he taught for 44 years. The winner of several awards for outstanding teaching, he is the author of twenty-two books and co-editor of three others, many of them published by Palgrave Macmillan. He now lives in Greenville, SC, and continues to write.

• Preface 1. Introductory Essay: True Wit and 'the Really New' 2. In Other Words, Death by Water, or 'The Burial of the Dead': The New Verse of The Waste Land 3. The Word and Other Words: Ash-Wednesday: Six Poems 4. Restored in the New Verse of Four Quartets: The 'Ancient Rhyme' of Incarnation 5. A Short Essay concerning Literary Knowledge Bibliography