“Quando fiam uti chelidon ” [When shall I become like the swallow]: words from the anonymous Latin poem Perviglium Veneris [Vigil of Venus]. They appear in line 428 of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land .
Advertisers buying placement in search-engine results are especially interested in one of these words. Dr. Pip Thornton tells Michael Rosen why in an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth : “Words for Sale!”
Friday, February 2, 2024
A word in The Waste Land
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