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Hi and Welcome!
Just a note about footnotes for The Wasteland. (My favorite poem of all.) You may already know this, but the footnotes do not have much of anything to do with the poem. They were added as "filler" when the publisher said the poem was to small to publish. You see, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Stein and Hemingway were all part of that expat group of experimental artists working in Paris between world wars. Pound had edited Eliot's poem by striking out large portions, and the mangled tangle of images that remain of the poem are what he left in. Then Eliot added back enough rambling footnotes to make the poem long enough to publish.
The footnotes themselves, however, have been studied as literature also.
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