(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 ...

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Acclaimed actor Ralph Fiennes visits the 92nd Street Y, New York on Monday, December 5th at 7:30 pm ET to read T.S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece, The Waste Land, upon the occasion of its centenary.

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 ...

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 ...

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T.S. Eliot’s poem sprawling, convoluted 1922 poem “The Waste Land” is revered as one of the essential works of 20th century modernism, but a century later it can strike new readers as forbiddingly ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Whoever coined the term Modernism for the artistic revolution unleashed by the 20th century must have thought the world was near its end. Otherwise, the term was doomed to anachronism as The New ...

“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 ...