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Eliot's use of allusion, whether literary or not, is really fascinationg. Sometimes he uses them not just as *thematic material* or *means for compression*, but as a hint revealing his method. It might be of some interest, that the famous line from Burbank on "...a perspective of Canaletto" refers not only to a general idea of space, but to the actual painting by Antonio Canaletto titled "Perspective". It is famous for eclectcism of the depicted scenery and the use of *interior* artistic space, which seems later to turn into the *spatial form* of TSE's famous poem. http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/c/canalett/2/perspect.html Cheers, TK