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T.S. Eliot
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  • Piedmont learned that he had not sent me to Yamacraw to preside over an intellectual wasteland with all due acknowledgments to T. S. Eliot.†   (source)
  • Then spoke the thunder
    T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land†   (source)
  • T.S. Eliot was twenty-five when he moved from the United States to England.
  • And for a long time I thought it was when you quoted T. S. Eliot.†   (source)
  • The poet Mina Loy could have made T. S. Eliot faint.†   (source)
  • ' "T. S. Eliot," ' Colonel Cargill repeated.†   (source)
  • Communications answered that T. S. Eliot was not a new code or the colors of the day.†   (source)
  • ' "T. S. Eliot," ' Colonel Cargill informed him.†   (source)
  • T. S. Eliot.†   (source)
  • Mark Twain gives us the Mississippi, Hart Crane the Hudson-East-Mississippi/generic-American, and T. S. Eliot the Thames.†   (source)
  • , you might stand that association on its head and begin your poem with a line like "April is the cruellest month," which is exactly what T. S. Eliot does in The Waste Land.†   (source)
  • Like T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece The Waste Land, it presents a society that has been rendered barren—spiritually, morally, intellectually, and sexually—by the war.†   (source)
  • This highly ungainly word denoting a most useful notion comes to us from the great Russian formalist critic Mikhail Bakhtin, who limits it pretty much to fiction, but I think I'll follow the example of T. S. Eliot, who, being a poet, saw that it operates throughout the realms of literature.†   (source)
  • T. S. Eliot knows what we generally think of spring, so when he makes April "the cruellest month"and says we were happier buried under winter snows than we are having the earth warm up and start nature's (and our) juices flowing again, he knows that line of thought will bring us up short.†   (source)
  • In the century just ended, there are modern religious and spiritual poets like T. S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill or Adrienne Rich and Allen Ginsberg, whose work is shot through with biblical language and imagery.†   (source)
  • Let's look at the easy ones—James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and what we could call the "Intentionalists"—writers who attempt to control every facet of their creative output and who intend virtually every effect in their works.†   (source)
  • Yes, "T. S. Eliot."†   (source)
  • "T. S. Eliot"?†   (source)
  • Just "T. S. Eliot."†   (source)
  • And I feel pretty safe saying that I rarely read anything for pleasure, although I've derived what I could call pure ecstasy obsessing over lines from T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins, my little Oxford English Dictionary, magnifying glass in hand, hellbent on getting at that one true meaning.†   (source)
  • T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.†   (source)
  • [Enter SECOND TEMPTER] 888 T. S. ELIOT Second Tempter†   (source)
  • A Christian martyrdom is no 894 T. S. ELIOT accident.†   (source)
  • And Eddie Guest and the Indian Love Lyrics are more poetic than T. S. Eliot and Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • 892 T. S. ELIOT T. Is it rain that taps at the window, is it wind that pokes at the door?†   (source)
  • Henry, Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Gogol, T. S. Eliot, Gide, Baudelaire, Edgar Lee Masters, Stendhal, Turgenev, Huneker, Nietzsche, and scores of others?†   (source)
  • I. ONE AND THE SAME civilization produces simultaneously two such different things s a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover.†   (source)
  • T. S. Eliot said something to the same effect in accounting for the shortcomings of English Romantic poetry.†   (source)
  • [They make to attack him, but the priests and attendants return and quietly interpose themselves] 896 T. S. ELIOT Thomas†   (source)
  • Picasso's shows still draw crowds, and T. S. Eliot is taught in the universities; the dealers in modernist art are still in business, and the publishers still publish some "difficult" poetry.†   (source)
  • You shall forget these things, toiling in the household, You shall remember them, droning by the fire, When age and forgetfulness sweeten memory 898 T. S. ELIOT Daly like a dream that has often been told And often been changed in the telling.†   (source)
  • We Are afraid in a fear which we cannot know, which we cannot face, which none understands, And our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, our selves are lost lost 886 T. S. ELIOT In a final fear which none understands.†   (source)
  • 902 T. S. ELIOT And at a later time still, even such temperate measures as these would become unnecessary, But, if you have now arrived at a just sub ordination of the pretensions of the Church to the welfare of the State, remember that it is we who took the first step.†   (source)
  • 900 T. S. ELIOT Knights.†   (source)
  • 884 T. S. ELIOT{.†   (source)
  • 890 T. S. ELIOT Thomas.†   (source)
  • In 1921 the distinguished literary magazine The Dial awarded him its first annual literary prize of $2,000, the significance of which is perhaps best understood if one also knows that the second recipient was T. S. Eliot.†   (source)
  • The Waste Land — T.S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.†   (source)
  • Emmart had had a distinguished career at the Sun and was now a highly esteemed editorial writer and a close student of T. S. Eliot, on whose poetry he had spoken in our writing course.†   (source)
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