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. We know that April is the cruelest month, ...

T.S. Eliot was among the greatest poets of the 20th century — an innovative stylist whose works include “The Hollow Men,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Waste Land.” A philosopher, ...

Edwin Muir (1887-1959) was a Scottish poet who wrote in a plain style with vivid imagery. While he is counted among the Modernist poets, he did not share the Modernist view of poetry as an end in ...

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, ...

Two new verse plays have been published this month. This is something of an event in itself-particularly since one of them is by the most influential poet writing in English-but the really remarkable ...

Even now, if you were to ask readers to name the 20th century’s greatest poem, at least among those written in English, the answer would almost certainly be T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (1922).

Clearly, 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 great ...

The great Christopher Ricks on the great T.S. Eliot. Practical cats and the way the world ends. Writer T.S. Eliot and his wife, Valerie Eliot at Southampton, England, on March 16, 1959, on board the ...

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, ...