T. S. Eliot, "The Frontiers of Criticism", The Sewanee Review, Vol. 64, No. 4 (October – December 1956), pp. 525–543: p. 533: "The notes to The Waste Land I had at first intended only to put down all the references for my quotations, with a view to spiking the guns of critics of my earlier poems who had accused me of plagiarism. Then, when it came to print The Waste Land as a little book – for the poem on its first appearance in The Dial and in The Criterion had no notes whatever – it was discovered that the poem was inconveniently short, so I set to work to expand the notes, in order to provide a few more pages of printed matter, with the result that they became the remarkable exposition of bogus scholarship that is still on view today."
