Mercury News: Review: Classic poem ‘Waste Land’ inspires timely drive-in stage show in Oakland
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 ...
Review: Classic poem ‘Waste Land’ inspires timely drive-in stage show in Oakland
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 ...
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem of “ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage,” but these same words could easily ...
The Irish Times: Adrian Dunbar on staging TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: ‘It’s the first major poem of the jazz age’
Adrian Dunbar on staging TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: ‘It’s the first major poem of the jazz age’
For her 80-minute documentary TS Eliot: Into The Waste Land (BBC Two, ★★★★), director Susanna White was significantly aided by the “buried treasure” element in the story of this famously elusive poem, ...
The Stanford Daily: Finding the third voice in T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’
National Catholic Reporter: 100 years after 'The Waste Land,' T.S. Eliot is still worth our time
100 years after 'The Waste Land,' T.S. Eliot is still worth our time
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 ...