(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 ...
How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? Should we read poetry, for example, with an eye on biography, or merely focus on ...
One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...
If you’ve ever read or studied T.S. Eliot’s excellent poem ‘The Waste Land,’ you probably have some thoughts about it that you’d be willing to share. (For me, I’ll never forget the valiant effort by ...
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 ...
On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...
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 ...
San Francisco, where I live and write, is all-too predictable. Not surprisingly, The City, as nearly everyone calls it, and its literate citizens have celebrated this year the 100 th anniversary of ...
May is the merriest month, and there are few more cheering journeys than a train ride into the green wilds of Sussex, in southern England. And no destination is more peaceable than Charleston, the ...
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