T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” might also be one of the most difficult texts to interpret. ... Is the voice of this dreary egghead the same one that, a few lines earlier, ...

Over the course of more than 30 years, the couple spent little time together — a few days when he came to America and, ... Emily Hale, T.S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime.

Such lines are poetry only by courtesy; they justify Robert Graves’s sardonic gibe: “What I like most about Eliot is that though one of his two hearts, the poetic one, has died and been given ...

When Virginia Woolf called Thomas Stearns Eliot an “unhappy man wrapt up in fibres of self-torture, doubt, and conceit,” she may have suspected that he would ruin several women’s lives.

Eliot may be better-known for his poems than his scripts. The Cocktail Party, however, contains three lines that, to me, echo as powerfully as any in The Waste Land.

When it comes to the world of modern poetry, T.S. Eliot is a name that resonates with both scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. Born on September 26, 1888, he was a renowned American-British ...

An exploration of TS Eliot's The Waste Land, in its centenary year, that for the first time uncovers the personal story behind Eliot's creation of his celebrated poem. Show more.

I adore Robin Lane Fox’s “On gardens” column but I have to remind him that TS Eliot’s observation about lilacs — that in April they breed “out of the dead land” (the opening lines of ...

Almost exactly 100 years ago, T.S. Eliot published a wildly experimental, cacophonous and moving poem of despair and spiritual hunger, forged in the flames and devastation of the First World War.