This program was originally broadcast on December 15, 2015. The great Christopher Ricks on the great T.S. Eliot. Practical cats and the way the world ends. Writer Thomas Stearns Eliot and his wife, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? Should we read poetry, for example, with an eye on biography, or merely focus on ...

In the autumn of 1914, Harriet Monroe prepared a manuscript for the typesetters of Poetry, a magazine she edited in what had been the front room of a mansion at 543 N. Cass St. in Chicago. Since then, ...

Join Ian McMillan for a celebration of remarkable poetry as he presents highlights of the annual T.S. Eliot Prize readings, recorded in front of an audience at London's Southbank. Show more Join Ian ...

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 ...

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 ...