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 ...

One hundred years after T.S. Eliot’s disconcerting poem “The Waste Land” was released in October 1922, we still find ourselves staring uncomfortably at our fractured, prickly selves. Winner of the ...

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 ...

It is one of the grimmest monuments of suffering and despair ever penned. T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” might also be one of the most difficult texts to interpret. But whatever the author was doing ...

Why is April the cruellest month? Why did the chicken cross the road? Why do people watch golf on television? The first question I can answer. April is the cruellest month because we are stuck. We’ve ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The event, which is being presented by 92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center, is sold out ...

On December 4, 1950, two years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot stood behind a lectern in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y and read some of his best work in front ...

A series of largely unpublished letters from TS Eliot and a first edition of The Waste Land poem inscribed by the author has sold for nearly $A569,905 at auction. The ...

Ralph Fiennes, currently starring in a New York production of a new David Hare play about power broker Robert Moses, will visit the 92nd Street Y in New York on December 5 to read T.S. Eliot’s ...

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 ...