…use of syllabics and the weaving of quotes from other sources into her poems, found favour with important champions such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Moore was a…

…the poems which would make up his first volume, Poems, published by T. S. Eliot at Faber & Faber in 1938. In a literary climate which prized the often explicitly…

…was one of “profound scepticism.” Called by some ‘the last English modernist’, his poetry follows in a tradition partly of his own discerning, through Hulme, Eliot, Pound (who caused him…

…T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilynne Robinson, Randall Jarrell, Ezra Pound, and many others. He is the author of a critical biography of Raymond Roussel, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of…

…Tongue (1994), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Saltire prizes. Cabaret McGonagall (1996) was shortlisted for the Forward and McVities prizes; The…

…the Wicked (1995, shortlisted for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize) are collected in The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1900–1995 (2000). Four of his poetry collections…

…around Thomas, though his voice was distinctive enough to attract the attention of T. S. Eliot who published The White Threshold (1949) through Faber & Faber, his publishers for the…

…her early twenties. She edited many collections and anthologies while at Faber and Faber, and worked closely with the company’s Poetry Editor, T S Eliot. He features as a character…

…mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary.” – T. S. Eliot “Between them, Eliot, Frost and…

…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…

…acclaim in his lifetime, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes, and winning the…

…literary icons as T. S. Eliot and Emerson. Some of his judgements still seem perverse, his preference for Robert Bridges to Eliot for instance, or Charles Churchill to Alexander Pope,…

…Gap-Stone Stile (1996), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize, her unusual, almost visionary style – personifying Nature and its birds,…

…or prose poems that return to Riordan’s Irish roots, received the Michael Hartnett Award. The Water Stealer (2013, also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize) is his most recent collection,…

…influence of TS Eliot on the book, both “stylistically and intellectually”, though Eliot also offers a moral paradigm. Swift’s own moral motivations and optimism are visible not only in his…

…idiosyncratic and subtle”. She writes of life in all its sadness – life, as what Eliot calls, that “infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing”. She was born in Glasgow in 1955…

…post-Christian’. Yet Phillips is keen to stress the influence of what she terms Western Classical Literature, particularly on the technical craft and range of language in Shakespeare, Eliot, and Heaney….