Welcome to Part 3 of my short critique of blogger Matthew Hartke’s post in which he puts forth the argument that the best way to explain the birth of Christiani...
In my previous two posts, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the li...
In my previous post, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to...
Back in 1991, I graduated college with a major in English Literature, and I read and wrote quite a bit of poetry. In particular, after college I got immensely i...
Last year, I did a blog series in which I did readings of various T.S. Eliot poems, in which I also provided brief explanations and analyses of those poems. For...
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title su...
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken...
It really says something about how difficult T.S. Eliot’s poetry can be when the one, if not only, poem almost every high school English Literature curriculum h...
Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Written in 1942, it essentially signaled the end of Eliot’s public career as a poet. ...
Dry Salvages is the third poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. It is the only poem of the Four Quartets that includes an introductory note to tell us that the Dr...