t.s. eliot
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The History of Literature #467 — TS Eliot and The Waste Land (with Jed Rasula)
In 2022, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land turned 100 years old – and it’s hard to imagine a poem with a more explosive impact or a more enduring influence. In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Jed Rasula about his book, What the Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made Poetry Modern. Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Continue reading
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The History of Literature #256 – T.S. Eliot | The Waste Land
In 1922, T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), an American living in England, published The Waste Land, widely viewed as perhaps the greatest and most iconic poem of the twentieth century. Virginia Woolf recognized its power immediately, praising it for its “great beauty and force of phrase: symmetry and tensity.” And yet, as nearly a hundred years’ worth Continue reading
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History of Literature #91 – In Which John Donne Decides to Write a Poem About a Flea
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:42 — 33.7MB) | Embed Subscribe: iTunes | Android | Email | RSS | More John Donne (1572-1631) may have been the most wildly inventive poet who ever lived. But that doesn’t mean he was the most successful. Dr. Johnson, writing a hundred years later, objected to Continue reading
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