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The Yale Review and Yale University Press are thrilled to announce that Jonathan Gleason is the inaugural winner of the prize for his manuscript Field Guide to Falling Ill, selected by Meghan O'Rourke. Read More. We know that The Waste Land is canonical because it has received the homage of parody.
Feb 25, 2017 · A summary of a classic Eliot poem by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Little Gidding’ is the last of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, but it is also his last significant poem. What’s more, there is a sense in this poem of Eliot seeking to join the threads of his work together, to ‘set a crown upon….
Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the p...
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Jan 21, 2017 · The legendary Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins read the classic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. It was first broadcast on 30 March 2012, on BBC Radio 4.
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Apr 15, 2016 · Extract. In 1952, T. S. Eliot gave a lecture in Nice, mysteriously entitled “Scylla and Charybdis”. 1 In this lecture, Eliot discussed certain lexical choices in Four Quartets, especially the process he went through to finally construct the expression “waning dusk” for “Little Gidding” (II, l. 38), in order to render the specific ...
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Dec 8, 2022 · Eliot is a mighty clever chap, and The Waste Land is unquestionably a highly sophisticated and cathartic bolus of cynical humor. But it has almost crazed some of the more advanced critics, who try with lamentable gravity to find Deep Meanings in some high-spirited spoofing.
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Sep 26, 2022 · A trove, long thought lost, was unearthed in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library: a sheaf of Eliot’s drafts of “The Waste Land,” some handwritten, some typewritten, with ...
