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 ...
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem of “ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage,” but these same words could easily ...
“Eliot After ‘The Waste Land,’” the second volume of Robert Crawford’s two-part biography, offers some answers — and some revelations. By Andrew Epstein When you purchase an independently reviewed ...
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 ...
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 ...
“The Waste Land,” the most influential poem of the 20th century, was published 100 years ago in T.S. Eliot’s highbrow journal The Criterion. This wildly original and difficult long poem portrays with ...
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 ...