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The Waste Land Part I – The Burial of the Dead - T. S. Eliot
I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept…
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The Waste Land Part III – The Fire Sermon - T. S. Eliot
III. The Fire Sermon The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs…
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The Waste Land Part II – A Game of Chess - T. S. Eliot
II. A Game of Chess The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From…
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The Waste Land Part IV – Death by Water - T. S. Eliot
IV. Death by Water Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked…
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The Waste Land Part V – What the Thunder said - T. S. Eliot
…sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi…
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Poet
T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
…and promoter, who did most to establish Eliot as the pre-eminent figure in the modernist movement, particularly through his decisive editorial intervention in ‘The Waste Land’. Eliot’s literary career now…
Poet
Ezra Pound
B. 1885 D. 1972
…S. Eliot. Pound’s incisive editing of ‘The Waste Land’ transformed it into the poem that revolutionised poetic sensibility. Pound’s own work in this period shifted rapidly from early formal poems…
Poet
Paul Muldoon
B. 1951
…The Waste Land, there are lots of snatches of ballads and songs and the apparently inconsequential things that we have around us.” Paul Muldoon has since gone on to produce…
Poet
Phil Bowen
B. 1949
…Poets, A Gallery to Play To was republished by Liverpool University Press in 2008. ‘All the Stuff’ is Bowen’s contemporary take on ‘The Waste Land’ in its centenary year, commenced…
Poet
Edgell Rickword
B. 1898 D. 1982
…a study of Rimbaud and began reviewing work for the TLS, including his celebrated piece on ‘The Waste Land’ which ranks as one of only a handful of perceptive contemporary…
The Classics
Sohrab and Rustum, ll. 857–end
Read by Alan Brownjohn
Sohrab and Rustum, ll. 857–end - Matthew Arnold - Read by Alan Brownjohn
…floated on, Out of the mist and hum of that low land, Into the frosty starlight, and there moved, Rejoicing, through the hush’d Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon;—he flow’d…
The Classics
Elegy written in a country church yard
Read by Maurice Riordan
by Thomas Gray
Elegy written in a country church yard - Thomas Gray - Read by Maurice Riordan
…to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull…
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A Forsaken Garden
Read by Patience Agbabi
A Forsaken Garden - Algernon Swinburne - Read by Patience Agbabi
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down’s edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a…