The Waste Land at 100

Essays

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
From the Archives

T.S. Eliot's "Different Voices"

Amy Clampitt

These must be the most familiar opening lines of any poem in the twentieth century.

Anthony Hecht The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

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The Waste Land at 100

Essays

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022
From the Archives

"The Waste Land" Revisited

Helen Vendler
December 1, 1990
From the Archives

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

James Merrill
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Ash-Wednesday

Richard Wilbur
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

T.S. Eliot's "Different Voices"

Amy Clampitt
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

The First Eighteen Lines of The Waste Land

Anthony Hecht
December 1, 1989
From the Archives

Revisionists Revised

Louis Menand
October 1, 1984