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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Fiennes, currently starring in a New York production of a new David Hare play about power broker Robert Moses, will visit the 92nd Street Y in New York on December 5 to read T.S. Eliot’s ...

Babies like “The Waste Land”. Try it on one if you’re sceptical. They appreciate the assonance, the rhythms and the intermittent rhymes. They cock an ear at the hair that “Glowed into words”, 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 ...