It is one of the grimmest monuments of suffering and despair ever penned. T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” might also be one of the most difficult texts to interpret. But whatever the author was doing ...

The lulling rhyme and sonorous language drew me in, and I was prepared to experience a beautiful poem written in a singular, compelling voice. But instead, I soon found myself confused, if not ...

One hundred years after T.S. Eliot’s disconcerting poem “The Waste Land” was released in October 1922, we still find ourselves staring uncomfortably at our fractured, prickly selves. Winner of the ...

The Waste Land was first published in The Criterion, a magazine that Eliot edited, in October 1922, and as a book two months later. Ever since, it has been regarded as the pre-eminent modernist poem ...

(RNS) — Some years ago, I was teaching T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” in a literature survey class, as I always do. On this day, students seemed even more befuddled by this notoriously difficult ...

The great Christopher Ricks on the great T.S. Eliot. Practical cats and the way the world ends. Writer T.S. Eliot and his wife, Valerie Eliot at Southampton, England, on March 16, 1959, on board the ...

A series of largely unpublished letters from TS Eliot and a first edition of The Waste Land poem inscribed by the author has sold for nearly $A569,905 at auction. The ...

With “Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’ ” Robert Crawford completes his monumental life of T.S. Eliot. The first volume, “Young Eliot,” was published in 2015. All told, we now have more than 1,000 pages ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land ...