Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

T S Eliot’s The Waste Land Part 5

T S Eliot’s The Waste Land Part 4

 

T S Eliot’s The Waste Land Part 3

 

T S Eliot’s The Waste Land Part 2

“To readers who want not amusement or magic, but poetry, and who want to know what poetry can be, if it is to be neither of these things, The Waste Land supplies an answer. And by reflecting on it we can perhaps detect one more characteristic which art must have, if it is to forgo both entertainment value and magical value, and draw a subject matter from its audience themselves. It must be prophetic. An artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts.”
R. G. Collingwood

T S Eliot’s The Waste Land Part 1

"And who will parse the broken measure ofThe Waste Land, our world-weary masterpieceIn which the very metric tells the tale?Who will devise the necessary scaleTo read this rhyme as Milton's has been read?" 
"Essay on Rime"  by Karl Shapiro

T S Eliot’s Early Poems Part 3

In this series on TS Eliot’s Early poetry Gil Bailie explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Cousin Nancy, Aunt Helen, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, and Gerontion.

T S Eliot’s Early Poems Part 2

In this series on TS Eliot’s Early poetry Gil Bailie explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Cousin Nancy, Aunt Helen, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, and Gerontion.

T S Eliot’s Early Poems Part 1

In this series on TS Eliot’s Early poetry Gil Bailie explores The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Cousin Nancy, Aunt Helen, Sweeney Among the Nightingales, and Gerontion.

The Tempest Part 3

The Bard of Avon’s last play, The Tempest, shares a bit of our contemporary fascination with the illusions of ‘reality TV’ and ‘stranded on a desert island’, orchestrated by the most gifted playwright the English language has produced in his farewell performance.

The Tempest Part 2

The Bard of Avon’s last play, The Tempest, shares a bit of our contemporary fascination with the illusions of ‘reality TV’ and ‘stranded on a desert island’, orchestrated by the most gifted playwright the English language has produced in his farewell performance.