By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Four Quartets was T. S. Eliot’s last great achievement as a poet. After its publication in the early 1940s, Eliot would write occasional minor verses, but much of his creative energy was directed into the theatre, where he wrote a series of attempts to […]
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A Short Analysis of T. S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party
An introduction to Eliot’s greatest play by Dr Oliver Tearle The Cocktail Party (1949) was T. S. Eliot’s greatest success in the theatre. Loosely based (according to Eliot himself) on Euripides’ Alcestis, the play combines autobiographical aspects from Eliot’s own life with ideas derived from his Christian beliefs, as well […]
Five Fascinating Facts about T. E. Hulme
Facts about poet and thinker T. E. Hulme 1. Hulme wrote what is arguably the first modern poem in the English language. There are numerous candidates for who was the first truly modern English poet, but one could do worse than propose T. E. Hulme (1883-1917). In 1908, on the […]
Five of the Best Books about T. S. Eliot
The best books on the life and work of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot is not the sort of poet you can understand in isolation. True, we can read the poetry and get a great deal from it, but our appreciation of, say, The Waste Land or ‘The Love Song […]
Five Fascinating Facts about The Waste Land
A short introduction to a classic poem in the form of five facts 1. T. S. Eliot’s working title for The Waste Land was ‘He Do the Police in Different Voices’, which he took from Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. The modernist poet T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) is probably best-known for his […]