When I was in middle school, my eighth grade English teacher Mr. Ortman read a poem aloud to the class called The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. At the time, I was just discovering ...
Let us go then, you and I, to a website where a story is spread out against the screen like a patient etherized upon a table. Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. Really, it’s ...
Born on September 26, 1888 in Saint Louis, T.S. Eliot was one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. His 1922 poem The Waste Land is one of the best known poems in the English language. A notable ...
In a stunning debut collection of poems, Alison C. Rollins makes use of imagery relating to archives, texts, figures from history, card catalogs, classifications — libraries as evocative troves of ...
T.S. Eliot has been voted Britain's favorite poet in an online BBC poll to mark National Poetry Day, the broadcaster said on Thursday. By Mike Collett-White, Reuters, The Associated Press LONDON — T.S ...
The letters between poet T.S. Eliot and a woman long-believed to be his muse, Emily Hale, were made public this week, 50 years after her death. The letters reveal an intimate relationship between the ...
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 After ...
T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will deliver the fifth lecture in the series on "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism" tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.
In college one night, I got very stoned and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” I was gripped by it, and felt I understood it — a feat I’ve never come close to accomplishing since. Yet I don’t think I ...