NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE (128 pp.)—T. S. Eliot—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). “My aim is to help to define a word, the word culture … to rescue this word is the extreme of my ambition.” So ...
One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...
San Francisco, where I live and write, is all-too predictable. Not surprisingly, The City, as nearly everyone calls it, and its literate citizens have celebrated this year the 100 th anniversary of ...
The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot, if not this century’s greatest poem in English, is certainly its most famous. Long, difficult and often enigmatic, it is full of quotations. It flits into parodies of ...
On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...