Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

A child who grows up amid such relentless trauma carries wounds that no treaty can heal. Even if the guns fall silent, what ...

Whether it's the end of the human race or the demise of fictional characters, death has been a recurring theme throughout ...

Eliot converted to Christianity via Anglicanism two years after identifying the malaise of The Hollow Men and five years after anthropologically eviscerating the Waste Land of modernity.

The first and only season, consisting of six episodes, aired in early 2005. The group's name comes from a grim T.S. Eliot poem. In 2006 they broadcast a BBC Radio 4 sketch show, also of the same name.

But by the end, the reader might still be wondering who Starmer is, other than perhaps one of TS Eliot’s “hollow men ”, a “shape without form, shade without colour”.

Levi learns the beasts below are known as the Hollow Men. Being a poet, he reconciles the T.S. Eliot poem of the same name. It spoke to people in purgatory who were afraid to move on.