T.S. Eliot
The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.
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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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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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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.
Read MoreEditors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.
Read MoreIn this excellent biography, Robert Crawford succeeds admirably in detailing T.S. Eliot’s early intellectual development.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard