My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language."… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have used the theologians and their treatment of apocalypse as a model of what we might expect to find not only… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are blondes and blondes and it is almost a joke word nowadays. All blondes have their points, except perhaps the metallic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“He mused on this village of his, which had sprung up in this place, amid the stones, like the gnarled undergrowth of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
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