A bad 20 years for Thomas Stearns Eliot Jonathan Bate on a personal study of the poet and his changing critical fortunes

The Sunday Telegraph London | December 31, 2000| | Copyright

Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot

by Denis Donoghue

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WHICHEVER WAY you count the turn of the millennium, the 20th century is now well and truly over. The stock

taking can begin: who were the most considerable figures in its literature?

Until at least 1980, few would have hesitated to place Thomas Stearns Eliot at or near the top of the list. The Waste Land was regarded as the central poem of the "modernist" movement which determined the shape of the literary century as forcefully as the "Romantic" movement had dominated the ...

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