The one part that still sticks with me the most is Eliot’s dedication to Ezra Pound, who’d played a great role in editing Eliot’s masterpiece. Il miglior fabbro, borrowing a phrase from Dante.

I recently bought a history of 19th-century France from a reputable second-hand books site, where its condition was described ...

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

Initial scepticism and a spectacularly awful film version have done little to slow the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Barbara Holdridge, co-founder of Caedmon Records that pioneered the audiobook concept, died earlier this month at her home in ...

He had, after all, been at the heart of the Imagist movement; he had also produced, in Cathay (1915), perhaps the greatest volume of verse translations in English and, Swift asserts, ‘arguably the ...

Lehman Weichselbaum letter on Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism as reason for denying him a place in Poet's Corner of Cathedral of St John the Divine; contends T S Eliot was just as anti-Semitic as Pound ...

Bloomsbury has acquired Maryville, a new collection by TS Eliot Prize-winner Joelle Taylor, in an eight-way auction. Poetry editor Kayo Chingonyi won UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) and ...

Join­ing a pres­ti­gious list of pre­vi­ous win­ners, in­clud­ing Don Pa­ter­son, Ted Hugh­es, Ocean Vuong and Car­ol Ann Duffy, Robin­son will al­so be just the sec­ond po­et in­duct­ed in­to the new ...