TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation A century ago, a man with a double life published one of the most celebrated, anthologised ...

What do you get a Nobel Prize-winning poet for his birthday? The poet, in this case, is T.S. Eliot, and this year he would have turned the intimidating age of 125. It's a tough question, but New ...

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 ...

The lulling rhyme and sonorous language drew me in, and I was prepared to experience a beautiful poem written in a singular, compelling voice. But instead, I soon found myself confused, if not ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most revolutionary and influential poem of the last 100 years was written by an American banker in the City ...

It's almost impossible to think of a world in which The Waste Land did not exist. So profound has its influence been not only on twentieth-century poetry but on how we've come to view the century as a ...