I always have a little think about TS Eliot’s The Wasteland at some point in April. Them’s the breaks when you’re a bit of a literature nerd, I’m afraid. For anyone else who fancies a wander through Eliot’s masterpiece as the flowers push themselves through the earth and try again for another year, here areContinue reading “April, the crullest month? Not on your nelly”
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Literature Long Read: This World Is On Fire – Mysticism, Rejuvenation and Peace in The Waste Land
2022 is the centenary year of TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece The Waste Land. It is one of the 20th century’s greatest and most influential poems, and yet seethes with such profound imagic, linguistic, cultural and religious references that it appears intimidatingly impenetrable to the lay reader. That’s the modernist way. But let’s not be temptedContinue reading “Literature Long Read: This World Is On Fire – Mysticism, Rejuvenation and Peace in The Waste Land”
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