This we know: The lines that Musk tweeted are “Death by Water,” the fourth and by far the shortest of the five sections of The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. But beyond that ...

T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” might also be one of the most difficult texts to interpret. ... Is the voice of this dreary egghead the same one that, a few lines earlier, ...

T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize ... In honor of Eliot’s birthday, here are a few things you might not ... It comes from the opening lines of "The ...

January 4 marks 50 years since the death of poet T. S. Eliot. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of one of Eliot’s most famous poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the work ...

Even now, if you were to ask readers to name the 20th century’s greatest poem, at least among those written in English, the answer would almost certainly be T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land ...

When it comes to the world of modern poetry, T.S. Eliot is a name that resonates with both scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. Born on September 26, 1888, he was a renowned American-British ...

Such lines are poetry only by courtesy; they justify Robert Graves’s sardonic gibe: “What I like most about Eliot is that though one of his two hearts, the poetic one, has died and been given ...