Fear death by water. I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring. Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone, Tell her I bring the horoscope myself: One must be so careful these days. Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, Contents 1 2 3 4 5 4 TS Eliot. The...
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At Harvard, he was greatly influenced by professors renowned in poetry, philosophy and literary criticism, and the rest of his literary career would be shaped by all three. After graduating, Eliot served as a philosophy assistant at Harvard for a year, and then left for France and the ...
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IT WAS on one cold January night in 1994 that the TS Eliot Prize for the best poetry collection of the year was awarded, for the first time, to the Belfast poet Ciaran Carson for a book called First Language. The ceremony itself took place in the dining room of the Chelsea Arts Club,...
THE widow of T S Eliot today joined the Evening Standard's Get London Reading campaign by donating Pounds 1,000 to fund two volunteers. Valerie Eliot, whose husband was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, said she had been "profoundly shocked" and was moved to give because: ...
The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot's friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922.If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so, because the published version of was ...
On Margate Sands/I can connect/Nothing with nothing" wrote TS Eliot, while convalescing from what was called a nervous breakdown at the time. The Waste Land's most famous line, however, is its first: "April is the cruellest month." In this April week Jackie Hopson narrates her own ...