It would seem with the opening of “Little Gidding” that Eliot has relapsed once again into his habit of opaque language, obscure...

T.S. Eliot protested at the critics’ tendency to interpret literary works through the lens of the writer’s biography, but hypocritically,...

In the introduction to this five part series I proposed that there were three elements of Eliot’s poetry that were necessary to best...

I’m using the word “listening” in this series on Eliot’s Four Quartets to suggest not only that the poetry should be read aloud or...