T.S. Eliot

May Short Fuses — Materia Critica

May 1, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Book Review: How “The Waste Land” Was Won

December 21, 2022
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Poet and professor Jed Rasula makes the case for The Waste Land‘s lasting revolutionary impact in his engaging and insightful, if occasionally discursive, study.

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Short Fuse Podcast #43: What is Poetry For?

August 17, 2021
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.

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Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

May 18, 2016
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Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

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Book Review: A Biography of T.S. Eliot — Before, During, and After “The Waste Land”

July 7, 2015
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In this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.

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