C learly, T. S. Eliot is the most influential poet writing in English in our time. There is probably no living writer about whose work there has grown up such a body of critical commentary. So ...

When Ted Hughes met T. S. Eliot in the 1960s, he was deeply struck by the older man’s physical presence: the strength of his hands (“thick, long, massive fingers”) and the slowness and ...

Gerontion, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, The Hollow Men, half a dozen others—by 1925, Eliot had already published most of the poems on which his fame is based.

The actor turns Eliot's poem into a grandly fractured Shakespearean statement on the unity of time. ... A Film of Ralph Fiennes’ One-Man Show Channels the Majesty of T.S. Eliot ...

Indeed, many of his poems seem to have emerged straight from his feelings for Hale. Emily and Tom, as he was called, met in Cambridge, Mass., in 1913, when he was 24 and she was 21, at the start ...

In 30 years of the TS Eliot Prize, it’s striking that it took until 2015 for a first book, Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade, to be the winner. From then on, a prize that had typically been awarded to works ...

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 ...

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant won the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for his second collection of poems, ‘Self-Portrait As Othello,’ which reimagines Shakespeare’s hero in a modern landscape.

An exploration of TS Eliot's The Waste Land, in its centenary year, that for the first time uncovers the personal story behind Eliot's creation of his celebrated poem. Show more 2022 marks the ...

And Smart, too, had a favourite character from the poem, Mr Eugenides, the louche Smyrna merchant, who appears in a couple of paintings, with the odd addition of Eliot’s initials. TS Eugenides ...