TS Eliot

The Letters of TS Eliot Volume 9: 1939-1941 review – of poetry and purgatives

Culinary delights, bodily fluids and finding financial security in cats feature in a 1,000-page volume that inches just two years further into the poet’s correspondence

Peter Conrad

12, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM

Four Quartets review – Ralph Fiennes meets TS Eliot in a triumphant return

The actor and director gives a compelling performance of the poet’s wartime epic in this solo show

Clare Brennan

06, Jun, 2021 @9:30 AM

Four Quartets review – Ralph Fiennes triumphs with bold TS Eliot monologue

Fiennes imbues Eliot’s last great poem with all the drama of a Shakespearean soliloquy in a magnificent, intimate theatrical experience

Arifa Akbar

03, Jun, 2021 @11:04 AM

Denis Donoghue obituary

Literary critic who defended traditional values against campus radicals

Eric Homberger

28, May, 2021 @4:54 PM

The reputation game: how authors try to control their image from beyond the grave

The row over a new biography of Philip Roth has exposed the way agents and estates restrict access and manage archives to maintain a writer’s posthumous good name

Edward Helmore

23, May, 2021 @2:36 PM

Ralph Fiennes to direct and star in TS Eliot's Four Quartets

A solo theatre adaptation, co-produced by Theatre Royal Bath and the Royal & Derngate, will tour the UK this summer

Chris Wiegand

17, Mar, 2021 @2:29 PM

Lawrence Rainey obituary

Other lives: Academic and author of critical studies on Anglo-American Modernism

Ulrika Maude

15, Mar, 2021 @3:16 PM

Bhanu Kapil wins TS Eliot poetry prize for 'radical' How to Wash a Heart

Judges praise the British-Indian poet’s ‘formidable’ collection, exploring the dynamic between an immigrant and her white, middle-class host

Alison Flood

24, Jan, 2021 @8:30 PM

TS Eliot had words of hope for Leavers and Remainers alike | Kenan Malik

Ursula von den Leyen’s quote from Little Gidding is a perfect epitaph for the Brexit year

Kenan Malik

27, Dec, 2020 @8:15 AM

The Fall of a Sparrow review – Vivien Eliot, TS Eliot and 'utter hell'

Ann Pasternak Slater has written a partial account of the life of Vivien Eliot in which her famous husband’s behaviour is always tip-top

Kathryn Hughes

08, Dec, 2020 @7:30 AM

The Fall of a Sparrow by Ann Pasternak Slater review – TS Eliot's troubled first wife

A new biography of Vivien Eliot fails to flesh out the woman abandoned by the poet and often regarded as the source of his despair

Rachel Cooke

29, Nov, 2020 @9:00 AM

TS Eliot estate steps in to help Brontë Parsonage Museum rescue appeal

A £20,000 donation has been made on behalf of the late poet to help preserve the historic home of the sibling novelists