It’s hard to think of a more famous opening in 20th-century poetry than “April is the cruellest month” — which continues, “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring ...

One of the most important poems of the 20th century, written by an American, arranged for four voices by a leading Irish actor and director, punctuated by a jazz score by a groundbreaking composer, ...

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. Like many millennials, I was educated, if that’s the right word for it, on the internet. The ...

It is one of the grimmest monuments of suffering and despair ever penned. T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” might also be one of the most difficult texts to interpret. But whatever the author was doing ...

On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...

The Waste Land was first published in The Criterion, a magazine that Eliot edited, in October 1922, and as a book two months later. Ever since, it has been regarded as the pre-eminent modernist poem ...