Who wrote The Golden Bough, which influenced Eliot's poetry and criticism?
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Correct answer: B. James George Frazer
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Frazer's comparative study of myth and ritual (1890; twelve volumes by 1915). Eliot's notes to The Waste Land cite it with Weston's From Ritual to Romance.
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