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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most revolutionary and influential poem of the last 100 years was written by an American banker in the City ...
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 ...
He promised “a new start”. I made no comment. What should I resent? No, not a response to the Tory leadership chaos but lines from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. This month marks the centenary of the ...
Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis's 'biography of a poem' captures the whirl of literary life in the 1920s – despite some strange omissions Tristram Fane Saunders has been writing for The Telegraph ...
T.S. Eliot’s poem sprawling, convoluted 1922 poem “The Waste Land” is revered as one of the essential works of 20th century modernism, but a century later it can strike new readers as forbiddingly ...
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