(RNS) — Some years ago, I was teaching T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” in a literature survey class, as I always do. On this day, students seemed even more befuddled by this notoriously difficult ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever read or studied T.S. Eliot’s excellent poem ‘The Waste Land,’ you probably have some thoughts about it that you’d be willing to share. (For me, I’ll never forget the valiant effort by ...

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 ...

The Waste Land was first published in The Criterion, a magazine that Eliot edited, in October 1922, and as a book two months later. Ever since, it has been regarded as the pre-eminent modernist poem ...

The enhanced e-book — a digital text that comes garnished with multimedia material — is one of those ideas that sound terrific in theory but are rarely satisfying in execution. Economics is largely to ...

T. S. Eliot fans who happen to be in London next month may be in luck. Viggo Mortensen is scheduled to read “The Waste Land” on Friday, September 11 at the British Library to mark the 50th anniversary ...