TS Eliot

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‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK
Exclusive: Directors struggle to fund work because of risk-averse commissioners and lack of resources, she says

Dalya Alberge

24, Apr, 2023 @1:47 PM

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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare
TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

Alex Clark

14, Dec, 2022 @11:00 AM

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Dinner With Groucho review – table for two mismatched geniuses
Frank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save

David Jays

22, Nov, 2022 @10:26 AM

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TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land
As the epic poem turns 100, devotee Jude Rogers examines the work’s thrilling, intriguing women, including Emily Hale, Eliot’s first love, to whom he wrote more than 1,000 recently revealed letters

Jude Rogers

30, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM

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TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still prevailed | Kenan Malik
A century on, the epic masterpiece speaks to today’s anxieties about loss of tradition

Kenan Malik

30, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM

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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece
Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem

Tim Adams

09, Oct, 2022 @6:00 AM

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The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen
The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy

Dalya Alberge

28, May, 2022 @12:18 PM

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TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times
A century on, modernist poem’s visions of a desiccated landscape still resonate today

David Hambling

16, Apr, 2022 @5:00 AM

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Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems | Letter
Letters: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has been getting a lot of media coverage, but there is another poet whose work is still relevant, writes Max Hunt

Letters

15, Apr, 2022 @5:09 PM

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Still living and partly living with TS Eliot | Brief letters
Brief letters: Poetic licence | Crossed wires | Clueless about Covid | Muting The Archers | Brexit walkabout

Letters

13, Apr, 2022 @4:25 PM

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The Guardian view on TS Eliot’s modernism: between high and low culture | Editorial
Editorial: What the poet found in the most popular music hall artiste of his time shines a light on a misunderstood genius and the time he lived in

Editorial

11, Apr, 2022 @5:36 PM

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Get real: Real Madrid aren’t really Spanish | Brief letters
Letters: Denationalised football clubs | Toilet seats: up or down? | The damage hard work does to bodies | TS Eliot anagram

Letters

08, Apr, 2022 @4:00 PM

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