| 单词 | Eliot |
| 例句 | Abby received her degree and moved off to another university, while Mrs. Linden was, in the end, fired when Eliot’s mother discovered that Mrs. Linden’s thermos contained more whiskey than coffee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The Colonel let out with a scream that was heard the length and breadth of Eliot Street, across the Lawn, and by a trout fisherman anchored in the river near the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus began to move again, causing the driver to look at Mrs. Sen and Eliot in his enormous rearview mirror. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "I must wear the powder every day,” she explained when Eliot asked her what it was for, “for the rest of the days that I am married." Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “How am I doing, Eliot? Am I going to pass?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z With Eliot’s help the newspapers were crushed with all the peels and seeds and skins inside them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Could I drive all the way to Calcutta? How long would that take, Eliot? Ten thousand miles, at fifty miles per hour?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The steel, more black than silver, lacked a uniform polish, and had a serrated crest, she told Eliot, for grating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He asked a former assistant, Charles Eliot, now one of Boston’s best landscape architects, if he would come to help. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sen told Eliot she didn’t feel right leaving him alone in the apartment, but Eliot knew she wanted him sitting beside her because she was afraid. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By early March Olmsted and Eliot were back in Brookline, Eliot now a full-fledged partner, the firm newly renamed Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He is here every day. It’s for your own good. Eliot, tell Mrs. Sen it’s for her own good.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Outside it was so cold that Eliot could feel the chill on his teeth. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Not only did he answer my letter, but he included his response in his autobiography, sandwiched between letters to Nehru, Khrushchev, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and other luminaries. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliot Spitzer, attorney general of New York, was holding a power breakfast back near the polished granite counter. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Half the time I wrote like bad George Eliot, the other half like bad Salinger. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Eliot could not do the math in his head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The mule moved out slowly, the joints of the wagon whining and rattling as it moved across the Meecham lawn and went over a curb to reach the small lane that led to Eliot Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliot had been going to Mrs. Sen’s for nearly a month, ever since school started in September. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By the time Eliot’s mother arrived at twenty past six, Mrs. Sen always made sure all evidence of her chopping was disposed of. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot’s mother nodded, too, looking around the room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When Eliot’s mother arrived at quarter to six, Mr. Sen told her the details of the accident and offered a check reimbursing November’s payment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “George Eliot,” he added, and I nodded, as if I knew who that was. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They always spoke to each other in English when Eliot was present. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot tied his sneakers by the bookcase and waited for her to join him, to choose from her row of slippers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Two things, Eliot learned, made Mrs. Sen happy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, relenting: “I’ve seen pictures of him with the Sitwells. And T. S. Eliot. Also—there’s rather a funny one of him with that actress—I can’t remember her name. She’s dead now.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Once, though, she broke her own rule; in need of additional supplies, and reluctant to rise from the catastrophic mess that barricaded her, she asked Eliot to fetch something from the kitchen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Nevertheless she refused to let Eliot walk around when she was chopping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z His mother was satisfied with the arrangement, and in a sense, she confessed to Eliot as they drove home, she was relieved. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Though she stood plainly before him, Eliot had the sensation that Mrs. Sen was no longer present in the room with the pear-colored carpet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They wanted a realist, so I suggested George Eliot—no, Eliot was actually Mary Anne Evans under a pen name, not a strong male author. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They drove in silence, along the same roads that Eliot and his mother took back to the beach house each evening. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On the way home an old woman on the bus kept watching them, her eyes shifting from Mrs. Sen to Eliot to the blood- lined bag between their feet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Instead she took a picture of Eliot and Mr. Sen standing on the sand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He wanted to take Eliot and Mrs. Sen to the seaside. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot followed her, walking for the first time in his sneakers across the pear- colored carpet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot turned and looked through the back window. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At nine o’clock, Ben saw Mr. Dacus pulling up on Eliot Street with a boat and trailer being pulled behind his car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eliot is eleven. He can feed and entertain himself; I just want an adult in the house, in case of an emergency.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z While she worked she kept an eye on the television and an eye on Eliot, but she never seemed to keep an eye on the blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In order to occupy Eliot she supplied him with the comics section of the newspaper, and crackers spread with peanut butter, and sometimes a Popsicle, or carrot sticks sculpted with her blade. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot’s mother noted the information on her pad. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Sen wore shoes; Eliot noticed several pairs lined on the shelves of a small bookcase by the front door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I absolutely adore your letter, especially the part about Eliot. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Eliot drank soda from a paper cup, Mrs. Sen steeped a tea bag with sugar and cream. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In silence she prepared crackers with peanut butter for Eliot, then sat reading old aerograms from a shoebox. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They bought so much fish that Eliot had to hold one of the bags. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The other books were by T. S. Eliot and Steinbeck. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was time for Eliot to leave she gathered together his things without inviting his mother to sit on the sofa and eat something first. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "Eliot,” Mrs. Sen asked him while they were sitting on the bus, "will you put your mother in a nursing home when she is old?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He walked the length of Eliot Street until he reached the Catholic church, then came back down Rowland Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Eliot had wondered if she had cut her scalp, or if something had bitten her there. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She sat at the table as he ate, drinking more wine and asking how his day was, but eventually she went to the deck to smoke a cigarette, leaving Eliot to wrap up the leftovers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When they got out of the car, Mr. Sen patted Eliot’s head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As he pressed the newspapers deeper into the garbage pail, Eliot felt that he and Mrs. Sen were disobeying some unspoken rule. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Subsequently she spoke in her own language, rapid and riotous to Eliot’s ears; it was clear that she was reading the contents of the letter, word by word. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By Eliot, who wrote the Waste Land thing they were studying in English. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the last afternoon Eliot spent with Mrs. Sen, or with any baby-sitter. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I’m right next to one of the biggest private libraries in the world,” said Billy, meaning Eliot Rosewater’s collection of science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliot accompanied her into the dank little shop, whose walls were festooned with nets and starfish and buoys. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Wintergreen told Cargill that there was no record at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters of a T. S. Eliot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As he wrote out the check he apologized on behalf of Mrs. Sen. He said she was resting, though when Eliot had gone to the bathroom he’d heard her crying. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “They think I live the life of a queen, Eliot.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Eliot, if I began to scream right now at the top of my lungs, would someone come?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In silence Eliot and Mrs. Sen ate the last few clam cakes in the bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Another day she played a cassette of people talking in her language — a farewell present, she told Eliot, that her family had made for her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She tended to hover on the far side of the door frame, calling to Eliot to put on his sneakers and gather his things, but Mrs. Sen would not allow it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She put away the letter, then placed a hand on Eliot’s head. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot knew she didn’t like the tastes; she’d told him so once in the car. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They turned down Eliot Street where the smell of deepset gardens and the bark of aroused dogs followed them past old brick walls covered with lichen and ivy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the telephone Eliot’s mother told Mrs. Sen that the previous baby-sitters had come to their house. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She did the laundry, and balanced the checkbook, and, with Eliot’s help, vacuumed the inside of the car. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot didn’t mind going to Mrs. Sen’s after school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Before that an older woman, Mrs. Linden, greeted him when he came home each afternoon, sipping coffee from a thermos and working on crossword puzzles while Eliot played on his own. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "They might call you,” Eliot said eventually to Mrs. Sen. "But they might complain that you were making too much noise.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot thought she was just practicing while they waited for Mr. Sen. But then she gave a signal and turned. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sen cut her Up, Eliot complained briefly of a pain in his ribs, and the car’s fender would have to be straightened. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As they walked back from the bus stop she produced a sandwich bag from her pocket, and offered Eliot the peeled wedges of an orange, or lightly salted peanuts, which she had already shelled. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They heard her laugh again as the car pulled out of the driveway, and eased onto Eliot Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The man assigned to the bed next to Billy’s was a former infantry, captain named Eliot Rosewater. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that the person who had written this letter was Eliot Rosewater, Billy’s friend in the veterans’ hospital near Lake Placid. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At first Eliot found Mrs. Sen’s anxiety incomprehensible; his mother had a p.o. box in town, and she collected mail so infrequently that once their electricity was cut off for three days. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z By then Eliot understood that when Mrs. Sen said home, she meant India, not the apartment where she sat chopping vegetables. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot stood by the lobsters, which stirred one on top of another in their murky tank, their claws bound by yellow rubber bands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Each afternoon Mrs. Sen stood in a grove of pine trees by the main road where the school bus dropped off Eliot along with two or three other children who lived nearby. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Do you miss your mother, Eliot, these afternoons with me?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Yet it was his mother, Eliot had thought, in her cuffed, beige shorts and her rope-soled shoes, who looked odd. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Perspiring heavily, he looked up when he heard Okra barking at a mule-drawn wagon that pulled around the corner of Eliot Street and was coming toward the Meecham house at an unperturbed pace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She rolled down the window on her side, and asked Eliot to do the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Exactly, Eliot, exactly like a wedding ring. Only with no fear of losing it in the dishwater.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z One evening when Eliot’s mother came to pick him up, Mrs. Sen served her a tuna croquette, explaining that it was really supposed to be made with a fish called bhetki. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “T. S. Eliot,” Colonel Cargill echoed with the same funereal puzzlement. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Eliot looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said that he was fine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Without having to be told Eliot took his place on the sofa and watched as she sliced the stems off the eggplant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On arrival Eliot saw immediately that Olmsted was ill. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You have to turn and speed up fast,” Eliot said. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Eliot always sensed that Mrs. Sen had been waiting for some time, as if eager to greet a person she hadn’t seen in years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She told Eliot to put on his shoes and his jacket, and then she called Mr. Sen at the university. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Communications answered that T. S. Eliot was not a new code or the colors of the day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z All in all, Eliot Hearst observed in Chess Life, the Candidates tournament had furnished “a series of early-round surprises that are probably without parallel in chess history.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Any idea why Eliot Bolivar stopped writing poems for the parish magazine?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Could this have laid the foundation for the triumphs of the English novel, from Daniel Defoe through George Eliot and Thomas Hardy? Exhibition Review: ?Manifold Greatness? and King James Bible at Folger - Review 2011-09-29T22:15:20Z Aiken being right would mean Eliot showing a "thin and vinegarish hostility towards the modern world" and sounding a note of "withered dogmatism". The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Michael Sayers When he was 18, my father, Michael Sayers, sent his poems to TS Eliot at the Criterion magazine. Michael Sayers 2010-06-09T17:45:00Z Then, too, it doesn’t help that Chinese government officials have been caught in acts that make the dalliances of Eliot Spitzer or Dominique Strauss-Kahn look uninspired. China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z Eliot Spitzer talks about how the country's politics are driven by the small percentage of Americans on each ideological extreme. Parker, Spitzer aim for ideological center on TV 2010-10-05T01:35:00Z “I should like,” Eliot wrote, “to get something of that into verse before I die.” Music Review: ?Four Quartets? at the Clark Studio Theater - Review 2011-11-09T23:07:59Z Vivienne Eliot is, if not the elephant in the room of biographical studies about her husband, then certainly the parrot whose cage is routinely covered with a cloth. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Here was a stage full of brilliant actors writhing around in cat wigs and face paint, singing psychotic Andrew Lloyd Webber songs with T. S. Eliot blackface lyrics. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Eliot is a very complicated poet, and I read it without a lot of preparation, on a bit of a wing and prayer. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z In fact, one of his very first works, “Five Eliot Landscapes” for soprano and piano, from 1990, ends on a sustained G flat. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The kind of close reading for which Eliot was arguing in 1919 remains the foundation of literary criticism in 2019—even if critics now think of it as a starting point, not a terminus. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z No matter what T. S. Eliot said, February is if not the cruelest month, certainly the bleakest. 5 Must-See Shows in New York This Month 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s likely Eliot feared the letters would be leaked and Fletcher might read them, Professor Cuda said. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Much more suitable is what Smith describes as Eliot’s “pent-up yearning.” George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Watch one of her sets and you're likely to be bombarded by references to Samuel Beckett and TS Eliot, or invited to consider which philosophers would make the most suitable guests at a dinner party. This week's new comedy 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z Eliot’s “Prufrock and Other Observations,” and works by Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley — were moved to a “special collections” room on the Hopkins campus. A Library the Internet Can’t Get Enough Of 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Eliot once described it as “the classic of all Europe.” Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Eliot put it nearly a century ago, the historical sense “involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.” The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell: despite their interest in social change, regionalism, community, the position of women, these great English novelists have nothing in common with Lawrence at all. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z At Exeter, his English teacher introduced him to movies such as Brazil and Blade Runner, and writers such as TS Eliot and George Orwell. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z TS Eliot compared Poe's mind with that of "a highly gifted young person before puberty". Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z “Straight down the line — it’s George Eliot, it’s Dickens, it’s Dr. Johnson, it’s Jane Austen.” Booker Prize Winner?s Jewish Question 2010-10-18T22:35:00Z The documentary also reminds us of how contemporary Eliot’s writing still is today. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z I have always preferred early Eliot – I still think Prufrock the greatest of the poems – and this preachy, prosy, High Church sentiment has never been to my taste. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Eliot’s cats are practical in an archaic sense of the word: they scheme and keep busy. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Think of those great nineteenth-century Georges, Eliot and Sand, who opted to give their books a better chance at a future by claiming to have fathered rather than mothered them. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Eliot Fremont-Smith, on the other hand, writing in The New York Times, found merit in the work. Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Even TS Eliot, who didn't really approve, tried his hand at one. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z In a lovely plaint for the forgotten men and women, Eliot sings: Review: A Vonnegut Madman Tangled in Thickets of Dark Satire 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z For a measure of how things have changed, take Charles Eliot Norton, “the most prolific begetter of the humanities” in 19th-century American higher education. ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished The inscription reads, stiffly: "To Virginia Woolf, From the author, TS Eliot." Sotheby's to auction 'knockout' collection of first-edition books 2010-06-01T16:54:00Z “Tradition” is filled with mannerisms that become familiar across the body of Eliot’s critical writing. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z George Eliot’s novels are greater because, as noted by Fareed Zakaria’s By the Book interview in the same issue, she wrote with “insight into people’s inner lives.” England’s Greatest Novelist and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z In April, 1925, Eliot joined the firm, renamed Faber & Gwyer, as a director, with the understanding that it would publish his magazine and his books. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Eliot, who guarded his privacy fiercely, died in 1965, having stated his wish to keep biographers from stirring the ashes of his life. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z For the first time in his life, Eliot was getting the brush-off from an alluring female he hoped to impress, and he was confused. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z “Soil is much happier with vegetation on it,” Eliot says. Dealing with a glut of weeds Moreover, Eliot keeps his emotional distance from these sad stories, this odd coolness being embodied by an unidentified guest at the party who is part Freudian detective, part religious sage and altogether chilling. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z For his “Cats,” Lloyd Webber mostly set Eliot’s light verse to music. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Before the inception of the TS Eliot prize, the judges' quarterly choice, in practical terms, merely boosted visibility and enhanced sales. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z Eliot famously to describe Webster as a dramatist who "saw the skull beneath the skin". Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z But since Eliot’s death, little has been known of the life that led up to its creation. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Eliot reporting on the scene: “In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.” A Florida Garden Brings Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Work to Life, in Bloom 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Supported by Peregrine Eliot, the 10th Earl of St. Germans, a computer artist and a fellow magician, he turned out paintings and sculptures at a terrific rate. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z I was reminded of Eliot's working title for the poem: He Do the Police in Different Voices. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z Dr. Enniss was reluctant to discuss his plans for the Ransom Center collections, saying only that he would like to unite some collections that were split, like those of T. S. Eliot, Waugh and Greene. Texas Monthly: Long at Helm, U.T. Collector Leaves Legacy With His Exit 2013-08-31T22:42:05Z “The Mill on the Floss” contains one of George Eliot’s sharpest caricatures in the figure of the foul schoolmaster Stelling. ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “Bessie Smith singing a good blues may deal with experience as profoundly as Eliot,” he wrote. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Offer the Pleasures of Big Ideas and Everyday Life 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Her mother retired as a second-grade teacher at Eliot Elementary School in Eliot, Me. Deborah Murphy, Nanci Blaisdell 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The library of his New York townhouse, with its towering bookcases, a portrait of George Eliot and a photo of the Chekhov family, was a shrine to literature. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Mead also delves into how Eliot, as a “respectable,” mature woman of high repute, dared live with a married man — fellow writer George Henry Lewes. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z “It took a level-headed observer of no particular insight or special knowledge to understand that Donald Trump’s deficiencies of character, outlook and experience made him unfit for office,” Eliot A. Cohen writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The oddest feature of the book is the way Vivienne Eliot's letters to friends cut across the rest. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z And it wasn’t the first choice of Eliot alone. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z “Starting with ‘and’ is an affectation derived from Eliot that is very tempting, but you should avoid it at all costs,” she paraphrased. Up Close: Lisa Grunwald?s True Colors 2010-04-21T21:07:00Z Their emotional duo and the naturalness that Irons brings to Eliot make this set of CDs a special gift. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Eliot, William Carlos Williams and other leading poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Top officials at Poetry Foundation resign amid criticisms 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Certainly, Eliot knew how to create a memorable image. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z In her new novel, “The Honeymoon,” Dinitia Smith has taken on the most enigmatic portion of the life of Marian Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym George Eliot. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s just so sad that TS Eliot never lived to see this 😿 Cats movie trailer: internet reacts in horror to 'demented dream ballet' 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Eliot had mixed feelings about being an editor. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land,” in New York, the show gets its name from Lewis Carroll. Now You See the Art in A.R. Now You Don’t. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z At a time when Hemingway and Eliot and Woolf and Joyce were remaking literature from the ground up, Fitzgerald was writing his old-fashioned stories in an old-fashioned way. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z The stage show became a global hit that brought in huge sums for the Eliot estate, and enabled her to create Old Possum's Practical Trust. TS Eliot's widow Valerie dies, 86 2012-11-12T10:46:02Z Dated December 1859, the dedication expresses "high admiration and regard" for Eliot - real name Mary Ann Evans. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The publication in England of the “Tennyson Birthday Book,” in 1878, inspired a George Eliot birthday book later that year. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z I started the book last September but couldn’t muster the focus Eliot deserves. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The festival is held in and around Port Eliot, her late husband Perry’s ancient family home in Cornwall, England. Brian Selznick: By the Book 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The PGA picks for best documentary were "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer," "Earth Made of Glass," "Inside Job," "Smash His Camera," "The Tillman Story," and "Waiting for Superman." "Social Network" among Hollywood producers nominees 2011-01-04T16:08:39Z Or picture George Eliot cornering Arthur Schopenhauer to challenge his argument that women are unsuited for artistic and intellectual greatness. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z A signed copy of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities bearing a personal inscription to fellow author George Eliot has gone on sale for £275,000. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z There were two unfamiliar names in one of its verses: “And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot / Fighting in the captain’s tower / While calypso singers laugh at them / And fishermen hold flowers.” Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Yet the ancient inheritance was crucial to Eliot, as the national one was to Woolf. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Eliot was impressed and gave Michael his first job, writing for the magazine. Michael Sayers 2010-06-09T17:45:00Z He’ll gladly neglect the endless task of computerizing his shelf-busting inventory to talk with you about his beloved 19th-century authors like George Eliot and Dostoyevsky, or his fine selection of Jewish theology. In Pittsburgh, a Bookstore Where ‘Freewheeling Curiosity’ Reigns 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The modernists won the day, and the discrete, imagistic verse of Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore eventually crowded out the more decadent, romantic lyrics of Millay and Sara Teasdale. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z No one else tried to deal in fiction with the entirety of a country – its geography, politics, class structure, religion – not Eliot, and not Dickens. Scotland's image-maker Sir Walter Scott 'invented English legends' 2010-08-16T16:21:00Z He speaks slowly, granting viewers time to grasp Eliot’s words. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z “I believe that alcoholism threatens the destruction of the white race,” said Charles Eliot, the president of Harvard University. Stocking filler 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The reasons for this are explained in the preface to the first volume: Hale gave her collection of Eliot's letters to Princeton University Library, where they will remain under embargo until 2020. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot a year and a half to write “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which is a rate of roughly two words a day. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Delightful” would be the word to describe this group, the brainchild of the choreographer Eliot Feld. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Eliot, well known for his love of detective stories. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z To conduct Bach’s Mass in B minor, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner wrote, “is to be filled with a tremendous sense of anticipation.” What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him? 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z As Eliot commented in a 1952 letter, his ambition with certain books was “not to make money, but to see that we lose as little as possible.” Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Eliot: "You always keep a corner of your mind working on poetry." The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot's widow will be sold in London later this year, Christie's auction house announced Friday. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z I recently spent time in the North of England and took along George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss.” He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z But perhaps Eliot thought it politic to emphasise aspects of Roman belief that repelled him. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z "It is the landscape all around that Eliot is writing about." TS Eliot village bids for world heritage status 2011-08-22T16:49:39Z Although she hews closely to the details of Eliot’s life before Cross, in one respect at least she takes an imaginative leap. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z As with many a Broadway musical these days, “Finding Neverland” — which features a book by James Graham and sticky soft-pop power ballads by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy — is based on a popular film. Review: ‘Finding Neverland,’ a Broadway Musical With Matthew Morrison 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “You have one of the largest auras I’ve ever seen. Green and black, taking up this room. You must have had hundreds of lives,” Eliot Bezzerides declared. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But under all of that there’s a simple question that needs to be answered: who is Eliot Alderson and what does he want? Mr Robot or Mr Woebot? Why the hacker drama might need a restart 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The tension between Groucho and Eliot became suddenly palpable when I reread an exchange they had about the two photographs that Groucho had sent. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z If the two men exchanged additional letters between the June, 1964, dinner and Eliot’s death, in January, 1965, none have been found. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The musical features a book by James Graham and music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy. Matthew Morrison Is Leaving 'Neverland' 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z While accepting Eliot's main contention that a classic is the mature cultural product of a mature civilisation, Kermode adds a typically complicating spin. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z Eliot called “Titus Andronicus” “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written.” Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Hale, a bright, accomplished woman who taught drama and speech at various schools, including Smith College, met Eliot in 1912, when Eliot was a graduate student of philosophy at Harvard. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Eliot Foundation, and the Anna Rabinowitz Prize for an interdisciplinary work featuring poetry. Executive Director of Poetry Society of America to Step Down 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z She notes that George Eliot almost always refused to let her novels be illustrated. Perspective | Illustrated novels have a vibrant history. A rich new era may be upon us. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Smith’s portrait of Eliot’s honeymoon with Cross, on the other hand, plausibly brings to life a puzzling period of her life. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “Four Quartets” The “Four Quartets” is his greatest work. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z “I am not sure that Eliot’s best qualification to become a publisher wasn’t the fact that he had worked in a Bank,” Morley wrote, years later. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z His devoted friend George Eliot concurred with the verdict of another close friend, Lord Bryce, that his “was perhaps the most original mind of his generation.” The ‘Greatest Victorian’ Is Largely Forgotten. His Biographer Wants to Change That. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z At the center of “The Disappearing Act” is an impetuous British actress named Mia Eliot, who flies to Los Angeles for high-stakes auditions. Review | Catherine Steadman of ‘Downton Abbey’ pens another screen-worthy thriller 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z Eliot was born to a wealthy Boston family in 1888; in 1896 they built a summer house near the shore in Gloucester. T.S. Eliot's summer house for sale for $1.3 million 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Eliot was Fitzgerald’s favorite living poet and “The Waste Land” finds its prose analogue in the novel’s depiction of the “valley of ashes” overseen by the billboard eyes of Dr. T.J. Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z It was, said Mrs Eliot firmly, what Tom would have wanted. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z The actor emoted to a close, and was followed by a reverent announcer's voice: "you have been listening to Little Gidding, by TS Eliot." Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Eliot once declared that Paul Valéry “will remain for posterity the representative poet . . . of the first half of the twentieth century — not Yeats, not Rilke, not anyone else.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The director was persuaded to curate the programme by his long-standing costume designer Sandy Powell, who is a Port Eliot regular. Trailer trash 2011-07-16T23:06:43Z Eliot’s verdict on it — “the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels” — arguably holds good to this day. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Davis has claimed repeatedly that Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor, was one of her frequent clients, using the code name “James” while he was serving as the state’s attorney general. How an ex-madam, a political trickster and a toddler got tangled up in the Russia investigation 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But then he falls for a pretty woman – Rosamond Vincy – and, in George Eliot's stern scheme of things, his medical ambitions are doomed. Ten of the best good doctors in literature 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z There is good reason to doubt that Joyce, in 1915, took this stance quite as seriously as his autobiographical hero did; but if Stephen’s declaration was meant ironically, Eliot certainly didn’t hear it that way. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Few authors have matched Eliot’s clear-eyed and compassionate capacity for portraying an individual’s growth, error, and disappointment—aspects of the human that do not seem to change much with the passing of the centuries. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The editors draw on an array of secondary sources in order to describe key events, such as Eliot's baptism and confirmation into the Anglican church, or his taking up British citizenship. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z He also read Strauss's Life of Jesus, as translated by George Eliot. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z Eliot and Sinclair Lewis as a high modernist of the late 20th century. Perspective | Burrowing deep into many rabbit holes of Mark E. Smith and the Fall 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The only thing missing was Representative Eliot Engel, Democrat of New York, arriving early to stake out a prime seat in the room. 'Veep' Season 4 Premiere Recap: She's Bebop Speaking 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Was it possible that, if the moment had revealed a lot about me, it also showed something about Eliot? Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Eliot's voice is clipped and sonorous and made a strange accompaniment to the river noise. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z But according to Henry Eliot we’re living in a golden age of mazes. The Making of a Massacre and canned laughter – podcasts of the week 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z At first, Glavin specialized in Victorian literature — Dickens and George Eliot and the Brontës — while writing plays on the side. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Eliot, Gustave Flaubert and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, their apartment felt like a secular shrine to Tudor England, with shelves of books on Cromwell and his contemporaries, and titles about medieval fashion, food and metallurgy. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Eliot assured Groucho that one of them now hung on a wall in his office, “with other famous friends such as W. B. Yeats and Paul Valery.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z George Eliot is one of those brilliant writers who manages to be polemical while telling a really good story. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z East Coker is one of the places Eliot celebrates in his Four Quartets series and is the final resting place of the his remains. TS Eliot village bids for world heritage status 2011-08-22T16:49:39Z The actress meticulously catalogued more than 7,500 personal letters from friends and colleagues, addressed to both her and Olivier, including missives from TS Eliot, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. Vivien Leigh archive acquired by V&A 2013-08-14T14:49:25Z Eliot was one of the most important poets of the 20th century, a giant of modern literature whose haunting verse has fascinated generations of high school students and poetry lovers across the English-speaking world. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Matilda, still charged up by the drumming, asked Eliot his name. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” for the stage. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Eliot Gibbons, the production’s workshop manager, said that his team of puppeteers tried to create figures with character and personality, even if they weren’t fully realized. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Eliot told Virginia Woolf that Joyce's Ulysses, which he believed did in prose what The Waste Land did in verse, "destroyed the whole of the 19th century". I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z Eliot argued that when a new work of art is created, the tradition that preceded it is forced to shift a bit: “something … happens simultaneously to all the works of art that preceded it.” Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z His father, Eliot, had managed Frank Sinatra through his later years, when he was mostly a concert act. The guitar nerd from Utica who has come to save the blues 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps that was Eliot’s inner cry of protest at dinner, too. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot: “essential ideas redolent of stale gin and suicide.” ‘It’s him, it’s sort of him’: Sam Shepard’s ‘The One Inside’ toys with fact and fiction 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Joyce lived in the city for more than 20 years, becoming an essential part of a literary community that included Pound, Eliot, Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bloomsday Is Ending but Joyce Left Plenty of Trail to Trace 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It is blank verse cast in Frost's trademark craggy voice, and it might be considered a local response to Eliot's more cosmopolitan "The Waste Land." The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z Instead, a mixture of pragmatism and shrewdness kept Eliot and Lewes living together without benefit of clergy. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z The recordings of Eliot’s poems try for transparency; lasting content takes precedence over any one reader at a single point in time. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Eliot, but the two parted ways in 2011 to launch separate projects. Artist to Watch: Waxahatchee 2013-06-07T14:00:29Z A bit like doing a show about TS Eliot, playwright and bank clerk, and entirely neglecting to mention that he also wrote poetry. A Celebration of Harold Pinter ? review 2011-08-10T17:45:01Z There is no definitive voice for reading T. S. Eliot. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z For Eliot "our social novels profess to represent the people as they are, and the unreality of their representations is a grave evil". Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z The final chapters of “Young Eliot” focus on that poem’s creation. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z No possible connection to Eliot’s published work, however faint or distant, goes unnoticed. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “I was very nervous about making a mistake,” says Eliot Ingram, 50, who runs a digital media company in Philadelphia and thinks he forgot the secrecy envelope during the primary. ‘I’ve been crying for a few days’: How voting became the latest of 2020’s many anxieties 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The ability to do so is described by James Graham’s book and Gary Barlow & Eliot Kennedy’s score as “imagination,” and Barrie spends much of his time onstage frantically urging everyone else to use it. In 'Finding Neverland' at the Pantages, pirates and pixie dust obscure the show's secret weapon: Sorrow 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z That and I tend to like the unlikeable, which is probably why I was so gung-ho to vote for Eliot Spitzer back in the day. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z Irons voices an Eliot who craves, desires and suffers more openly than in the sober accents of Gielgud and Guinness. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Ricks picks up a bone much chewed over, by TS Eliot and FR Leavis who could never quite make their minds up about Milton and his wholly idiosyncratic diction. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Kitaj was an eclectic reader and claimed literary inspiration for much of his work from writers ranging from TS Eliot to Franz Kafka to Walter Benjamin. RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge 2013-02-10T06:00:01Z Eliot’s fondness for doggerel and light verse, in particular, was intertwined with a racist notion of blackness as a gateway to cultural disruption and linguistic play. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z TS Eliot's play is given the subtitle: "The Archbishop Murder Case". From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z From Eliot’s letters, we can’t help but imagine what kind of emotional kindling his unfulfilled longing for Hale might have provided for some of his best work, written during a bad marriage. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Eliot's brilliant descriptions and Austen's anti-sentimentalism are fundamentally different from Fitzgerald's angst and irony or Lee's social commentary and coming-of age novel. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Also on display is a letter to George Eliot which shows she clearly did not approve that the novelist was not married to George Lewis and agonised about how to refer to her. Elizabeth Gaskell bicentenary marked with exhibition 2010-07-20T14:49:00Z Scorsese isn't the first person you picture paddling in a Cornish estuary, but Port Eliot Festival has persuaded him to curate a season of evening double bills. This week's new film events 2011-07-15T23:06:38Z I have had a complicated relationship with George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” over the years. Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Set up by TS Eliot and friends, the PBS provides information and reviews on contemporary poetry for readers. Laureate Duffy fights poetry cuts 2011-05-31T15:53:36Z Strictly speaking, they don't belong here, being neither to nor from Eliot, but in their absence there would be no discussion of a marriage in the process of disintegration. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Eliot ranked Moore among the “five contemporary poets—English, Irish, American, French, and German” whose work excited him. The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z We stopped in the middle, high above the Thames and voiced the final fragments shored against Eliot's ruins. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z Early on, the film takes us to places from Eliot’s early life, such as Griff House, which is now Nuneaton’s Premier Inn. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The other, “Hysteria,” was inspired by a poem by T. S. Eliot and is an often-funny absurdist piece of physical theater that begins with an awkward dinner date at a restaurant. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z Welsh, who says he loves the work of Jane Austen and George Eliot, creates a world more real than a great many worlds we enter in today’s fiction. Irvine Welsh is back with another brazen novel: ‘A Decent Ride’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z I’ve always felt, as I believe T. S. Eliot put it, that the artist is engaged in a continual self-sacrifice, a loss of the personal perception of reality. By the Book: Edward O. Wilson 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Eliot brought in his friends, too, including Ezra Pound and James Joyce. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Eliot had thought Grizabella too sad for children, but Lloyd Webber saw her as a character to build a musical around. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z T. S. Eliot, she insisted, was sending her threatening messages. Books of The Times: Martin Stannard Traces a Writing Life in ?Muriel Spark? 2010-04-13T22:35:00Z The day they were made available at the Ivy League school, Eliot’s statement, written five years before his death, was released — as per his own instructions. T.S. Eliot letters show love for muse but poet downplays it 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Her fictionalized take on more than 20 years’ worth of letters from T. S. Eliot to his confidante Emily Hale figures prominently in this carefully crafted novel. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Simon Eliot, professor of the history of the book at the University of London, said that the idea had been to produce cheap, portable and disposable books. Penguin is 75 2010-06-30T18:45:00Z Eliot was famous, and he was a man, and she turned him, as she did Somerset Maugham and Bertrand Russell, into a leathery old lizard. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z If one looks at 19th-century literature and intellectual scope, it's George Eliot … and Elizabeth Gaskell. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z As a teenager Eliot was Muldoon's first poetic catalyst, "but that was also, in a way, tied up with song," he says. Paul Muldoon: a life in poetry 2013-03-31T05:59:01Z But Eliot wouldn’t budge, and soon Matilda became more interested in her bagel, ignoring him. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z The auditorium is empty, but filled with a rich voice reading TS Eliot. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z Kids on the Stage and on the Stairs, and Sometimes Both at Once “Ballet Tech is about dancing, and dancing, and opportunity, and children, and dancing,” the choreographer Eliot Feld said on Thursday. Dance Review: Ballet Tech Performs at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-14T20:30:52Z The score by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy, meanwhile, is a nest of thin tunes and near-rhymes — “truth” and “use,” “earth” and “hurt” — that grows ever more grating as the evening wears on. For the Tonys, which of the two Broadways will prevail? 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The agreement grants the Joyce Theater Foundation Inc. the option to purchase the theater at 175 Eighth Avenue from the Ballet Tech Foundation Inc., Eliot Feld's academic and dance public school for underprivileged students. ArtsBeat: Joyce Theater to Buy Its Chelsea Home 2012-09-19T01:00:12Z In this sense, it’s fitting that “Normal People” opens with an epigraph from George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda,” drawing on a connection to the 19th-century social commentary that also examined the depth of these dividing lines. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Eliot's poetry of the period also connects itself to "the life of significant soil". Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z Later, Eliot’s widow, Valerie, would tell Lloyd Webber that Eliot always composed his light poems with popular songs in his head. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The prize is run by the Poetry Book Society and supported by the TS Eliot estate and Aurum, an investment management company. Sharon Olds wins TS Eliot poetry prize for Stag's Leap collection on divorce 2013-01-14T19:30:02Z In 1919, Eliot could boast only a thin volume of poems and a handful of essays and reviews, but he had confidence to spare. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z But Trollope, a provincial postmaster as well as an eminent novelist, didn’t occupy an eighteenth-century mansion on an exclusive stretch of the embankment of the Thames; George Eliot, his literary peer and friend, did. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z So was Bloom a weak misreader of Eliot and the New Criticism, or a strong one? Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z And Eliot was hardly unaware, in the wake of the Holocaust, of the distress his 1934 remarks had caused. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As Eliot later wrote, their relationship “brought the state of mind out of which came ‘The Waste Land’”. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Mrs. Eliot, who was almost 38 years younger than her husband, had been his secretary for several years at the publishing house Faber & Faber when they married in 1957. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z Eliot describes his romantic relationship with a researcher. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Eliot at London publisher Faber & Faber, where the Nobel literature laureate was a director and she a star-struck secretary who had been a fan of his work since her teenage years. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z Two weeks later, he shifted tack, from reducing Eliot’s individuality to sexual terms to reducing his public persona to his social origins. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Festivalgoers at the oh-so-genteel event at Port Eliot in Cornwall this week will be enjoying a selection of films by Martin Scorsese. Trailer trash 2011-07-16T23:06:43Z Eliot: “April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z My title is a quote from TS Eliot: 'O dark dark dark. Brian Aldiss: my life in book covers 2013-06-07T10:33:00Z Eliot composed the poems that make up the work eventually published as “Four Quartets” over the course of six years, and at the end of his literary career. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Eliot from "Four Quartets": "Time present and time past are both present in time future, and time future contained in time past." In 'Speak,' distinct voices from distinct eras ponder human connection 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Or what Zadie Smith means in her essay on Middlemarch when she writes of how, over time, Eliot learned "sympathy for the stumbling errors of human beings". Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Valerie Eliot used some of the windfall to set up a literary charity, Old Possum's Practical Trust. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z Eliot wrote in a 1929 review of “The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories.” Books of The Times: A Sherlock Holmes Tale That?s Hardly Elementary 2010-12-16T07:05:12Z Of course Little Gidding comes years later than King Bolo, and no doubt Eliot got more starchy as time went by. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z In “The Great Gatsby” Fitzgerald — just as Eliot would do in fits and starts throughout his career — seeks the preservation of Symbolism in modern American literature. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z For the rest of Lewes's life, they openly had a relationship while he stayed married to his wife, and Eliot dedicated The Mill on the Floss to "my beloved husband, George Henry Lewes". Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z It subsequently appeared in the three other volumes assembled by Eliot, including “Selected Essays,” which itself went through three different editions. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Opening with a quote from TS Eliot's Four Quartets, "History is now and England", Willis traces the stories of a group of time-travelling historians from Oxford. Connie Willis wins 11th Hugo award 2011-08-23T11:12:58Z “Know what T. S. Eliot said?” one character asks as the play careers to a conclusion. Critic’s Notebook: Back in Chicago, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer 2013-08-09T20:44:12Z In the long run, everyone remembers George Eliot while the Rosamonds who outshone her in her youth are all forgotten. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Eliot took a pass on George Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London” and “Animal Farm.” Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The plot was inspired by T.S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written in 1939. Second life for Lloyd Webber's Cats 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z I was asked to do Eliot specifically because I’m from the Midlands, I think, but I found a connection with her quite quickly in her books, particularly in Middlemarch. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Lewis, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens — and discussed at the dinner table, in the car, on walks. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z At Faber, Eliot was publishing a number of books on agricultural matters he hoped would be a bulwark against this loss of knowledge and community. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z Her camera occasionally sneaks glimpses of existence outside the theater — shots that conjure the views of Eliot’s England, a world of moss-covered stone and fields of grass-fed cows. ‘Four Quartets’ Review: Virtuosi in Verse 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The fifth section contains Eliot's most sublime moments of religious contemplation as he thinks about "hints and guesses", which is all we ever get: "and the rest / Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action". The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z "It's really bonkers," Eliot Glazer, 28, said in a telephone interview. Viral video spoofs the, er, stuff New Yorkers say 2012-01-20T23:48:08Z It became the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats," a global hit that brought in huge sums for the Eliot estate. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z But at this point I find myself in agreement with George Eliot, who said, “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense.” Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Eliot seems to have wanted Groucho to consider him a warm, ordinary guy and not the type of stiff, repressed person who disdained from a great height “free-thinking Jews.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z It can be exhausting having to extend “our sympathies,” to borrow an idea from George Eliot, to the same old male characters. Heroines Triumph at Box Office, but Has Anything Changed in Hollywood? 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z TS Eliot, author of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which inspired the musical, left his literary estate to Faber. Withdrawal of Poetry Book Society funding sparks outcry 2011-04-04T14:48:48Z Eliot, by then in his sixties, told Faber that he’d reached a point where “I often feel that any usefulness I had for F. & F. is a thing of the past.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z But Groucho was so defensive in the presence of the “British poet from St. Louis” that he seems to have missed Eliot’s subtle homage to his intellect. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z So did Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, whom he wrote was caught “sinning like the sinners” in the unsubtly titled “Fall From Grace.” Up Close: James L. Dolan Says He Lets His Music Speak for Him 2010-06-17T00:47:00Z There was a smooth musicality in his reading but little of the joyful dance, of the transcendent gaiety Eliot coveted. Music Review: ?Four Quartets? at the Clark Studio Theater - Review 2011-11-09T23:07:59Z Thames sailing barges still drift, as in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, down Greenwich reach, past the Isle of Dogs: “With the turning tide/ Red sails/ Wide/ To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.” Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z P. S. Eliot, the last group the sisters shared, disbanded last year, at least in part because of Katie’s realization that she’s better bossing herself around than others. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z “What George Eliot does is center these huge reforms happening in England on individuals in a tiny little town,” she said. With Her Latest Novel, Petina Gappah Sees an Obsession Through 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The person who suffers and the mind that creates – Eliot again – occupy entirely different zones of action. John Banville on the birth of his dark twin, Benjamin Black 2011-07-22T21:55:11Z It became, she says, quoting TS Eliot, a still point in a turning world. Nutshell Theatre's Allotment: Bring your own veg to the show that's a grower 2011-08-07T21:46:00Z I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z The scholar Leonard Diepeveen aptly describes this feature of Eliot’s critical prose: “Though he regularly asserts the need for evidence, Eliot doesn’t often provide it.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z He has thought a lot about Jane Austen and George Eliot, worked out how they did things, and says George Moore's novel Esther Waters really hit him emotionally after he taught it to one group. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” and, if I squeeze my eyes real tight, the final luxurious paragraphs of “The Dead,” James Joyce’s masterful short story. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z In his statement, Eliot said he told Hale he was in love with her in 1914, but she did not appear to reciprocate his feelings at the time. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z His 1996 collection Subhuman Redneck Poems won the TS Eliot prize, but, shortly after, Murray was struck down by a liver disease that saw him close to death in a coma for three weeks. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z Don't be fooled by his schoolboy-ish eagerness – Costner's Eliot Ness can shove a bad guy off a roof, and then quip about it, with the best of them. Kevin Costner: five best moments 2013-06-14T16:12:31Z The fruits of Eliot's unconscious labour in these years were strange indeed. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot writes Maggie into such an impossible corner that death is the only way out. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z “No voice would have had wing enough to rise above the uproar, and Mr. Brooke, disagreeably anointed, stood his ground no longer,” Eliot writes. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z "Doc Eliot we chose because we believed in his message, and we thought his first book was sensational and didn't get the reception it deserved," Blake said. Comics: 'The Art of War' as a graphic novel 2011-04-26T21:08:04Z Eliot’s estate received the lyricist’s royalties, and, for F. & F., acting as the estate’s agent, their percentage of the Eliot percentage “gave the firm enough financial headroom for an act of real rejuvenation.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Another technological transformation under way is the coming of the railway, a phenomenon about which, as Eliot shows, members of the public were as alarmed as they are today about driverless cars. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In 1921 T. S. Eliot teetered on the brink of a mental collapse. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Scholars of literary modernism have spent relatively little time investigating T. S. Eliot’s ardent and abiding love of cats. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The bride’s mother, who is retired, was an associate master of the house for Eliot House, an undergraduate residence at Harvard. Lara Heimert, Gary Rosen 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Eliot wrote, "We are the hollow men," he was in fact a chocolate Easter bunny. Why the right hates Common 2011-05-12T15:47:00Z Her parents were both “superb entertainers” and their house was always full of literati, including Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg. In Two Memoirs, the Scars of Childhood Trauma Run Deep 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Whether being allusive, ironic, aphoristic or downright playful, Eliot shows the full power of her intellectual arsenal. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z Organized crime — bootlegging and tax avoidance — was a foe Eliot Ness could understand and defeat. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z You can’t say Lloyd Webber doesn’t have a genius instinct for what audiences want — Grizabella, the “glamour cat” who belts out the iconic “Memory,” doesn’t even appear in Eliot’s original collection. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z After her husband’s death, Mrs. Eliot was wounded by criticism that he had been cold and self-absorbed, that he had been an anti-Semite, that his treatment of his first wife had been ruthlessly self-serving. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z T. S. Eliot tells us that human beings cannot bear very much reality. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z What struck you most about Eliot while making the film? Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z For an extreme example of what Eliot meant, consider “The Sherlockian,” a new novel predicated entirely on Holmes worship, Holmes mimicry, Holmes artifacts and assorted other forms of Holmesiana. Books of The Times: A Sherlock Holmes Tale That?s Hardly Elementary 2010-12-16T07:05:12Z In her surviving letters, at least, Eliot did not remark upon the grandeur of her surroundings, though her correspondence does reveal that she endured the usual discombobulation of moving house. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Eliot Schrefer’s new Lost Rainforest series casts sunset as nature’s own Mason-Dixon line, dividing animal kind into daywalkers and nightwalkers — two factions with a xenophobic fear of one another. Fantasies for Young Readers, With an Eye on Today’s Fears and Divisions 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Erin Wilhelmi is a shimmering mess of trembling nerves and sweetly naive enthusiasm as the shy new office assistant, Eliot. Review: Office vibe turns comical in 'Core Values' 2013-05-09T18:49:07Z Barthes’s multi-dimensional space sounds for all the world like Eliot’s description of the mind of the poet—but it’s even more purely impersonal than what Eliot had imagined. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot solves the riddle for us early in the December conclusion: “The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot writes, “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.” #blessed? Not a good look. Your 2016 resolution is to ban these “basic” phrases 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Eliot’s gone and put his finger on the zeitgeist.” Books of The Times: Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light 2011-04-06T21:15:45Z Brenda Maddox is the author, most recently, of “Eminent Lives — George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife” out in Britain and soon to be published in the United States. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z If Paul ever met T. S. Eliot, he would spout revised footnotes for “The Waste Land.” | 'Midnight in Paris': Kicking the Old Ennui With the Lost Generation 2011-05-19T14:22:17Z Responding to a reviewer who had referred to his having been received into the Anglo-Catholic church, Eliot pointed out that there was no such entity existent to receive him or anyone. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z It is erotic and disturbing, but what this has to do with Eliot’s unfinished verse drama is hard to say. Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In his 2006 novel Kept, Taylor acknowledged the influence of, among others, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Thackeray and Trollope. The novel as offensive weapon 2010-04-13T07:30:00Z In this thriller, a British actress named Mia Eliot arrives in Los Angeles after a star turn in an adaptation of “Jane Eyre,” hoping to advance her career. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z When the poem appeared in chapbook form two years later, it placed Eliot at the forefront of poetry’s avant-garde. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z You can safely bet on a few things whenever the conductor John Eliot Gardiner comes to town: agile, historically informed performance; obsessively precise articulation; and virtually ideal readings of beloved repertoire. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “I was not in love with Emily Hale,” Eliot wrote on Nov. 25, 1960, in a statement that he instructed was to be released “as soon as” his letters to Hale were made public. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Simon Eliot, co-curator at the museum and specialist in 19th century books, said: “He was able to focus attention on Christmas and give it a sort of identity and verve which it had lacked.” World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The venerable English publishing house Faber & Faber — the longtime home of writers including T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes — is celebrating its 90th anniversary. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Only when their lives are spent and Eliot experiences his greatest loss is the quest fulfilled, allowing the two to return to their own timeline and regain their youth. The 10 best TV episodes of 2018: A highly subjective list 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Groucho enthusiastically complied, and the two continued to correspond until they finally met, in June of 1964, in London, when Groucho and his fourth wife, Eden, went to the Eliots’ house for dinner. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z In 1934, Eliot published a book of lectures called “After Strange Gods,” in which this passage appeared: The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot’s almost diametrically opposed “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” the most influential literary-critical essay of the 20th century: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’: Life among the original anti-consumerists 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z I have a volume of T. S. Eliot to which I add different translations of his poems as I come across them. Why Olga Tokarczuk Likes to Read T.S. Eliot in Translation 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Eliot Fremont-Smith, in his review for The New York Times, called it “a compelling novel, gracefully written, angry but acute, committed but controlled, obviously timely, but deserving of attention for far more than that.” John A. Williams, an Underrated Novelist Who Wrote About Black Identity, Dies at 89 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z But it was Eliot’s unhappy personal life, as much as his literary background, which inspired his great poem. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z I reached for the dice to roll again before I finished saying the words “T. S. Eliot,” in a voice that telegraphed the sentiment “Duh.” Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z His “superlative portrayal of Eliot Ness” was, she declared, “the most inspiring image on today’s screen, the only image of a real hero.” ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Eliot — “This is the way the world ends” — while clutching a teddy bear, in that teenage way of simultaneously clinging to childhood and seeking maturity. ‘Ginger & Rosa’: A poet is born 2013-03-21T20:30:31Z Ms. Tanowitz, who smartly and thoughtfully distills ballet technique into fresh, inventive forms, is well poised to illustrate Eliot’s ideas on space, movement and stillness with elegance and clarity. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", for a two-week run at the end of this year. Lloyd Webber to revive 'Cats' in London, hints at movie 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Then came Eliot's cats, one of them "engaged in a rapt contemplation / Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name". It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Was Eliot’s echo—“I trust so”—of Groucho’s stiff, formal language a deliberate dig at Groucho’s affectation or, perhaps, a parody of polite conversation? The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps Groucho had sensed all along a belittling sentiment behind Eliot’s request for the in-character photograph; nevertheless, he put one in the mail shortly thereafter. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Of course, Eliot was only doing what editors do, stirring up controversy. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z The Egoist carried a subtitle, “An Individualist Review”; in its pages, Eliot seeks to put individualism in its place. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z In 1945, she began working in in the Ministry of Education, and two years later she married Tibor Szobotka, a writer who was the Hungarian translator of James Joyce and George Eliot, among others. The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabó’s “The Door” 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The pages devoted to George Eliot, about whom Hughes has published an entire book, focus on how family members wanted the novelist depicted in biographies. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Eliot called Pound “Brer Rabbit,” in turn—the two men wrote to each other in black dialect for fun. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Who knew what Pound and Eliot were doing fighting, or who the captain was supposed to be, or why the calypso singers laughed at them? Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “There, he’s ended up in Henry James’s and George Eliot’s novels, and become part of the culture,” she said. The Frick Acquires Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Berryman believed that the writer of a long poem needed to have “gall, the outrageous, the intolerable,” as his long-poem predecessors—Whitman, Eliot, and Pound—had. My John Berryman: A Poet of Deep Unease 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Hale expected that once free, Eliot would finally propose. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Eliot Prize, and been published in Poetry magazine, the New Yorker and other prestigious journals. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z In a terse postscript, Eliot wrote, “The letters to me from Emily Hale have been destroyed by a colleague at my request.” The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z "Preludes" by TS Eliot"You tossed a blanket from the bed, / You lay upon your back, and waited". John Mullan's 10 of the best 2012-02-10T22:55:07Z In “The Waste Land” T. S. Eliot translated it as “The Peace which passeth understanding.” Art in Review: PETER CAMPUS: ?Calling for Shantih? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z The bride’s father was a professor of literature at Harvard and also the master of Eliot. Lara Heimert, Gary Rosen 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z While Eliot’s poems continue to be greatly loved, their author himself is another matter. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z She also noted that both Eliot and Bach, to varying degrees, have been tainted by antisemitism and said she realized, “I need to make a Jewish dance.” Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z I don't know that Eliot was corrupted by his ideology, but I think he's a character who did something that was wildly unexpected. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z As Eliot writes of the poet in general, “emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z I prefer T. S. Eliot’s view that “the conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically.” Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Eliot Lee, a fellow from South Korea who networks with businesses and other organizations in Asia, asked about the danger of instigating “change purely for the sake of change.” Davos Fellows Get Theater Arts Training at Columbia 2010-07-09T23:27:00Z Whether Eliot is the greatest 20th-century poet writing in English or just one of the greatest, these two hefty volumes honor every aspect of his artistic genius and unrivaled flair for cultural bricolage. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Valerie Eliot was the second wife of the US-born Nobel laureate in literature, whom she met at London publisher Faber & Faber. Valerie Eliot, widow of TS Eliot, dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:55:00Z The views of rolling fields Eliot once saw are now car parks. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Though “Tradition” was initially seen only by a coterie audience, it is Eliot’s most important essay—and arguably, the most influential English-language literary essay of the twentieth century. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Now in the Four Quartets, Eliot was centring his spiritual being in his ancestral village of East Coker where the ghosts of the related dead were timelessly present. Adam Foulds salutes Romantic Moderns, winner of the Guardian first book award 2010-12-02T14:09:00Z The verse drama Sweeney Agonistes and the dramatic monologue "Journey of the Magi" seem worlds apart, but the letters show that both developed out of Eliot's understanding of his chaotic life in religious terms. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot’s “Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: From deep in the mind, alluring visions “rise to the surface like pale faces which fishermen flounder through floods to embrace.” Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z I wish I had known then about his King Bolo poems – yes, by the very same TS Eliot – but though they were sometimes referred to in the Eliot industry, they were not allowed publication. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z In “Outsiders,” Gordon tells the stories of five visionary women who disdained convention and made literary history: Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf. Group Biographies Give Trailblazing Historical Women Their Due 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z I remember him talking of Eliot and Dylan Thomas. Amos Almond by David Almond 2011-08-26T21:55:11Z But there is nothing cruel about Smith’s portrait of Eliot, Cross, Lewes or any of the many characters who flit in and out of her long life. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Most people, Eliot wrote, think of poets as people who express their feelings in verse. In Praise of Beach House 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Many scholars expected the letters would contain only literary gossip and Eliot’s musings on writing and poetry. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z He quotes both TS Eliot and the Venerable Bede as he presides over the split milk and roasted egos like a weary God in white shirt and tails, watching the human race disgrace itself. The Butler 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z Eliot’s The Wasteland, I found pretty hard going. Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway 2013-04-25T09:45:35Z Lewes encouraged Eliot to write fiction and to share the next two and a half decades with him. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Some of these accusations are, at least partly, true: “How unpleasant to know Mr. Eliot!” as he himself once wrote. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z We accepted sweet granola bars and orange juice passed by one of Ms. Eliot’s friends, sang along when invited and some even teared up during a poignant spoken-word piece composed by Ms. Eliot. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z As well as the Eliot connection, the village is notable for it sunken lanes and a medieval dancing circle. TS Eliot village bids for world heritage status 2011-08-22T16:49:39Z If, for Eliot, the author was a kind of flesh-and-blood beaker, for the French poststructuralists, the author was purely a fiction, a heuristic device—what Foucault called the “author function.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot never rejects a manuscript without asking to see future work and never refuses a speaking engagement without hoping to be asked again. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Lloyd Webber said he was making the character of Rum Tum Tugger a rapping street cat because “I’ve come to the conclusion that … maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap.” ‘Cats’ gets rap twist for West End revival 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The author of more than 60 books, Morgan's 2007 collection A Book of Lives was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize and won the Sundial Scottish Arts Council book of the year award. Edwin Morgan, Scotland's national poet, dies aged 90 2010-08-19T13:24:00Z It's a far cry from Daniel Defoe, who was put in the pillory for his writing, or from George Eliot, who declared that if the novel "does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally". Do creative writing courses make novels too 'literary'? 2011-01-10T12:09:17Z His mother, Margaret Eliot, was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music whose private pupils included the future Beatles producer George Martin. How Peter Asher, a Jack-of-all-Trades in Music, Mastered Them All 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z I find George Eliot’s didactic tone and suffocating authorial presence pretty well unbearable. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Reading these bits of doggerel it is impossible not to revise your image of Eliot, and I began to find him more varied, amusing, and even more admirable, than I had previously. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Including a selection of Vivien's letters allows insights into the Eliots' unhappy marriage, but it is an inevitably partial account and the editors' policy on which letters they chose is not entirely clear. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Born Valerie Fletcher in Leeds, northern England, on Aug. 17, 1926, Eliot was the second wife of the U.S.-born Nobel literature laureate. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z April may be the cruellest month, according to TS Eliot, but it is the end of August, which marks the end of the fringe, that cuts to the quick. Edinburgh festival: day 16 on the fringe 2012-08-22T16:26:00Z The fluke success of “Cats,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on Eliot’s poems, helped subsidize many later and more obscure projects. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Eliot, Willa Cather and Thomas Mann, to 19th-century occultists, symbolist painters, pioneering feminists and gay poets, to revolutionary Russians and Nazi apologists, and even to the Hollywood visionaries of “Apocalypse Now” and “Star Wars.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z It was Ezra Pound, calling himself Brer Rabbit, who gave Eliot the nickname Old Possum, another moniker borrowed from Joel Chandler Harris’s “Uncle Remus” collection of African-American folklore. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Notoriously formal, he called her Miss Fletcher and she called him Mr Eliot until, one uncharacteristically giddy day in 1957, they sloped off to get married as dawn was breaking over Kensington. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z Eliot only mentions the month once, but that one naming is enough to place the poem irrevocably in the time of the year most suited to its tone of disjointed unbelonging. Poster Poems: October 2012-10-05T12:51:18Z Eliot Stein is a writer based in Berlin. A quiet German town welcomes some 2 million visitors for Martin Luther’s 500th 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Those ruminations of Eliot inflect Tanowitz’s patterns, making the return of a dance phrase even more like a memory. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Eliot and Pound apparently liked writing to each other in the dialect used in “Remus,” in a kind of literary minstrelsy. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z In one of the more illuminating letters quoted in “The Untold Story,” Eliot explains his reasons for rejecting the “sound, earnest and educated verse” of a manuscript that the house was considering. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Eliot's "The Waste Land," of the supposed rot of modernity and social change and the need to restore the nation's supposedly previous state of glory. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z You have a fascinating conversation with Eliot Spitzer in the film, where you suggest that the financial sector has become an enormous criminal enterprise. Cannes: How the bankers fleeced the world 2010-05-19T15:20:00Z Excerpts lifted from landmarks of Western literature, running from the epic tradition of Homer and Milton to the high-modernist experiments of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot, are read in voice-over. | 'The Nine Muses': ?The Nine Muses,? by John Akomfrah - Review 2011-10-05T22:07:26Z As for Hale, whatever feelings she conveyed to Eliot are lost to history. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Eliot had once refused an adaptation offer from Disney; Lloyd Webber promised Valerie that he wouldn’t turn her late husband’s chimeric creations into mere “pussycats.” The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z He's widely acclaimed for having written the first great novel of the 21st century, but the form of that novel – state-of-the-nation social realism – looks back to Dickens and George Eliot. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Fitzgerald's artistic soul was at one with Eliot's. Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z This is a good moment to recall another line attributed to Eliot: “Amateurs plagiarize; professionals steal.” My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Also included are 51 Man Ray photographs of prominent writers and artists like T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Inside Art: Sculpture as Portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011-12-15T21:41:44Z The prize, donated by the TS Eliot Trustees, was presented in central London on 13 January. Belfast Laureate wins TS Eliot prize 2014-01-13T20:55:18Z And here is Eliot himself, to explain why poetry matters: "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ..." New book asks whether literature still matters 2011-03-28T11:36:12Z The Eliots moved house more than once during the period covered here. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Eliot, this is probably the greatest single volume of poetry published in the 20th century by an American. Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Such are the main denizens in Eliot’s vision of modern life — “hollow men,” he calls them elsewhere, “stuffed men” — shuffling through life, refusing to look at the world beyond their toes. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z Gross, who is professor of creative writing at Glamorgan University, said winning the Wales Book of the Year award shortly after the TS Eliot prize was "hugely affirming". Philip Gross wins the Wales Book of the Year award 2010-07-01T11:34:00Z In that fight, Eliot is rooting for what he sees as the underdog, tradition—the foundational essay of modern literary criticism is fundamentally conservative. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Both Coleridge and Eliot, who were writing about print, sound uncannily like ranters against the Internet and television. Arts & Leisure Preview: Is There a Future for Arts Criticism? 2010-03-31T18:33:00Z T. S. Eliot famously commented, in 1920, that “immature poets imitate; mature poets steal,” and added that the “good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique.” The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Festivalgoers at Port Eliot may well savour Martin Scorsese's own subtle, spectral presence in this selection. Port Eliot film festival selection has hints of Martin Scorsese 2011-03-26T01:00:00Z We meet with the usual suspects — like Nietzsche and Dawkins — but also romp around with Plato, Wittgenstein, Yeats, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Eliot famously credited Webster as showing the skull beneath the skin. Review: In ‘The White Devil,’ Pick Your Poison 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Wilmers began her career, as mentioned, at Faber & Faber, the venerable English publishing house — the longtime home of writers including Eliot, W.H. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Namely, that Eliot was one of the sauciest and smartest women in the 19th century. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z What those consequences are and whom they affect reflect back to the words Eliot wrote about the individual and the “wider public life.” Review: ‘Now and Again’: A vibrant novel about the Iraq War and the homefront 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z “Middlemarch,” and Eliot’s work in general, remains remarkable for its subtle delineation of character and of inward psychology. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In a sense, this volume honours that wish, since it consists for the most part of correspondence in which Eliot cultivated his public mask. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z I noticed, however, that Eliot was staring intently at Matilda as she ate. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z This volume of correspondence may show one aspect of their difficulties: it's not that TS Eliot is poor company, exactly – he's hardly company at all and seems to prefer it that way. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z And then Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to make a musical based on Eliot’s poems about pets. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The core of first-world malaise, he argues, can be summed up by something T. S. Eliot observed in “Four Quartets”: We are “distracted from distraction by distraction.” Dealing With Anxiety, Mental Illness and Grief 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Proceeds from the auction will go to Old Possum’s Practical Trust, an arts charity Valerie Eliot set up. Art Owned by TS Eliot’s Wife Fetches $11.3 Million 2013-11-21T15:22:19Z Among such shows today, the most successful, “The Good Wife” on CBS, quickly morphed into a legal drama after drawing viewers with an Eliot Spitzer-style scandal. Television: ‘Political Animals’ on USA Stars Sigourney Weaver 2012-07-15T00:28:02Z Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born in London on Aug. 6, 1932, to a Quaker family with an illustrious pedigree in the arts and sciences. Howard Hodgkin, Whose Paintings Were Coded With Emotion, Dies at 84 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z But Eliot did not have long to enjoy her new surroundings. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z While Eliot always maintained that he had a happy childhood, by adolescence this sheltered Little Lord Fauntleroy existence began to chafe. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The prize money for the TS Eliot Prize has been increased to mark the 50th anniversary of the poet's death in 2015. Anniversary boost for TS Eliot prize 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z A viewer who worries, as Eliot’s narrator does, about having the experience but missing the meaning, need not worry. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z This results in concerts that artists — including this year’s guests, like the Tallis Scholars, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and John Eliot Gardiner with his Monteverdi Choir — don’t perform anywhere else. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z A more textured portrait of Eliot emerges in the meticulous footnotes that Haffenden and Eliot provide. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Dickens was an admirer of Eliot's 1857 short story The Sad Fortunes of Reverend Amos Barton and wrote to its author to express his admiration for the "womanly touches" he detected within it. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Eliot — another American, with whom she worked in the 1960s at the London publishing house Faber & Faber — a British facade became the entire edifice. Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Eliot piercingly grasped the principle — obtained surely from Hindu religion — that, in dance, motion contains stillness and stillness motion. Review: Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Four Quartets’ Hits Poetic Heights 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Davis added, “The need we have for Eliot is to remind us that there is more—and a great deal more—than what we see around us in our culture in our time.” The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Eliot was given the nickname Possum by Ezra Pound, who got it from “Uncle Remus,” Joel Chandler Harris’s compilation of plantation folktales, which was published in 1880. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Every weeknight on CNN Americans can consume the opinions of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, even though he was exposed, three years ago, as a client of the escort service Emperor’s Club V.I.P. Critic?s Notebook: Dirty Politics: From Halls of Power to Hotel Suites 2011-05-18T05:50:00Z Eliot’s last great poem, which touches on death and disease, as well as on dance, but from a philosophical distance, musically musing about time. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z At 15 he discovered TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, and started writing poetry. Jack Gilbert obituary 2012-11-20T14:17:57Z It suits such a play of innuendo as when the timorous Prufrock of Eliot’s first major poem observes cultured women who “come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.” Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens TS Eliot William Carlos Williams Which creator of bucolic children's fiction actually rose to become secretary of the Bank of England? Quiz: Banking in literature 2011-01-11T16:17:46Z Haigh-Wood was a troubled woman whom her brother committed to a sanatorium in 1938, five years after she and Eliot formally separated. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z After all, this is why Mary Ann Evans took up the pen name George Eliot and Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupon went by George Sand! J.K. Rowling’s rejection letters are a sorry statement on the future of book publishing 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z "Catching Hell" is a companion piece of sorts to Gibney's "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" from last year. Bartman movie premieres at Tribeca 2011-04-25T14:42:55Z Mr Crawford does not flinch from showing Eliot’s flaws: he made anti-Semitic remarks, in his letters as well as in several poems, despite having one or two Jewish friends. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He said that anyone who was mad enough to have turned TS Eliot's cat poems into a musical would surely take on the challenge. How we made: Cameron Mackintosh and Herbert Kretzmer on Les Misérables 2013-02-18T20:59:02Z With new writers, Eliot tended to express interest early but was slow to make a commitment. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Suddenly Eliot, until then only a name in my favorite song, became an obsession, a way of understanding my own specialness, a mark of difference from my friends and family and immediate world. Our Favorite Dylan Lyrics 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z By the time Lewis and Eliot converted to the faith in the late 1920s, Christianity was a bête noire of the literary world. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Eliot may have described April as the cruelest month, but it’s still kind to writers like him, whose work is celebrated at this time every year. Spare Times for Children for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The title may only be familiar because of T. S. Eliot, but this low-budget, black-and-white debut feature, directed by David Secter, has its champions, who cite it as a landmark of Canadian low-budget cinema. 5 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The election of T. S. Eliot, in 1942, came rather late in his career as a poet. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z You have a fascinating conversation with Eliot Spitzer where you suggest that the financial sector has become an enormous criminal enterprise. "Inside Job": Global finance as a criminal conspiracy 2010-10-08T00:30:00Z It’s no surprise that George Eliot, the great portraitist of unhappy Victorian couples, did marriage her own way. 14 Nonfiction Books to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Both men, it turned out—Groucho the flagrant misanthrope and Eliot the restrained one—were those rare figures in whom public persona and private personality aligned. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z For example, when TS Eliot wanted to become poet in this lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. I am an English writer, not a British one, Ian McEwan tells Alex Salmond 2012-08-22T21:40:25Z One of things people forget about Eliot is that the amount of popular music in The Waste Land is phenomenal. Paul Muldoon: a life in poetry 2013-03-31T05:59:01Z Eliot was famously homely, but the trait that was her misfortune as a woman was the making of her as a novelist. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z We did this brilliant course, which was basically all about the Court – about the shift from TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party to Look Back in Anger, right through Wesker, Bond, all those writers. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z Eliot Feld was riding the subway when the car filled with a bunch of rambunctious kids on a field trip. Review: The Kids (in New Hands) Are Still All Right 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z For George Eliot, "the greatest benefit we owe to the ... novelist, is the extension of our sympathies". Novels don't need to be 'nice' 2010-10-19T10:46:00Z That same year, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began to investigate Capone's affairs, and in October 1931 – after Capone's efforts to nobble the jury had been defeated – he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z Eliot's not the first person to trip on that particular fault line. Parker, Spitzer aim for ideological center on TV 2010-10-05T01:35:00Z No wonder T. S. Eliot wrote the introduction for it. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z While there is a great mass of business correspondence, there are no letters from Eliot to Vivien. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot called “the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James” — or, as Gore Vidal put it, as Gore Vidal would, the work of a writer who was “barely literate”? Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Eliot meant when he said as we get older, the world becomes stranger. A backstage, meditative adventure with 'The Encounter's' Simon McBurney 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z From the start: The opening calmly built toward what the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has called an aural analogue to an “altarpiece by Veronese or Tintoretto” — immersive, its elements gaining sweep from their interplay. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Maybe he could use a book of poems—say, that old T. S. Eliot book his mom used to read to him. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Smith is less concerned with Eliot’s prodigious intellect and spiritual searching and more interested in her relationships with men, which is understandable. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z There are fiction writers I admire, whose work tends to the essayistic, who take on positions – George Eliot, Balzac, Fielding – and the strength of their work is in the freedom, the unshackling, that fiction affords. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z Eliot went on with a broader observation, one that implicitly underlies her greatest fiction. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The writing team even admitted that the show had initially been inspired by the very public collapse of the then New York governor Eliot Spitzer's marriage. The Good Wife: a grown-up affair 2011-01-06T12:27:10Z “The thing about the Eliot verse is that you can tell he’s American. Nobody other than Eliot would have written ‘The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat,’” the composer said. ‘Cats’ gets rap twist for West End revival 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Eliot, Byatt and Smith are connected by their careers as both novelists and critics. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Rosamond is Eliot’s disquisition on just how oblivious a beautiful woman can afford to be, but for all its perceptiveness, the portrait is not free from spite. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z George Eliot is more intellectual and more ambitious than Gaskell, her narrators more penetrating and empathetic. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z After that band folded, the sisters began a new one, P. S. Eliot, for which they’ve been best known to date, releasing two albums and two EPs. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z Avocado, bacon and cheese burgers gestured to Eliot's American heritage. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z A few more thoughts: • “This is what a revolution looks like,” says Eliot as he walks through the panicked halls of Evil Corp. 'Mr. Robot' Season 1 Finale: Who's That Knocking at My Door? 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Others have cruelly imagined that it was Eliot’s sexual demands or a glimpse of her naked body that sent Cross into the Grand Canal. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Still, even without understanding all of the historical allusions, it’s possible to grasp Eliot’s implication that the provincial society she is portraying is, for the most part, reflexively conservative. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, Dostoevsky and “all the Brontës’s novels” are among the impressive goals! Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z During the one decade 1811-20 not only were Byron, Keats and Shelley writing and Jane Austen’s novels published, but Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope and George Eliot were all born. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But George Eliot didn't get a London street named for her in her lifetime, nor after it, either. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z I was made to read Dickens and George Eliot at school, which was such tough going for me that I believed reading fiction to be a form of torture. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z So far as I know, Eliot never gave a public account of what transpired that evening. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot against the allegation of neglect in his first marriage. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z Virginia Woolf showed what a mess our minds are, Gertrude Stein wrote portraits through a Cubist kaleidoscope, and T. S. Eliot shored fragments against his ruins. A Stylistically Daring Novel Considers Fundamental Questions 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Eliot insisted that “this may be our last chance to do something remarkable in the way of imaginative literature.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were, in addition to being leading literary figures and poets during the twentieth century, boorish anti-Semites. This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z A fan of T. S. Eliot, Lloyd Webber began tinkering with “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” as a simple songwriting exercise before deciding to build a show around it. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The Poetry Book Society's application included good proposals which address our goals, including the TS Eliot Prize and the public readings by the shortlisted poets. Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z T. S. Eliot, reviewing a collection of their letters, published in 1932, reassures his reader that Gaskell “thinks of Norton as a brother, an elder brother, to her girls.” The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In his 20s, Wilson was among the first critics to recognize the importance of Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and what he called Hemingway’s “distinctively American development in prose.” Lewis M. Dabney, Scholar Who Made Edmund Wilson Focus of His Life’s Work, Dies at 83 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Eliot and Frank O'Hara, who wrote about painting and literature, and Philip Larkin, another accomplished poet, who also wrote on jazz. Criticism -- what is it good for? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A woman collapsed in a chaise longue on a brick and breeze-block patio is trying to read George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda.” ‘Infinite Life’ Review: Is There a Cure for Pain and Desire? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Eliot, a friendly acquaintance of Orwell's, was a political and cultural conservative, not to say reactionary. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The ornate bronze stucco of Ca’ Giustinian marks the scene of the suicide attempt in June 1880 of the new young husband of the British novelist George Eliot. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z The doors at Faber were always open, Mrs. Eliot said, so the chocolate story was a fabrication. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z TS Eliot declared: "In fact, it seems to me the first step American fiction has taken since Henry James." Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z Scorsese's choices here are droll, and the presence of a railway viaduct at Port Eliot is significant. Port Eliot film festival selection has hints of Martin Scorsese 2011-03-26T01:00:00Z Eliot took up the line in “The Waste Land”: Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z Universities were very prominent in promoting sterilization, so, for example, president emeritus Eliot of Harvard University, who was a revered figure, wrote an article supporting eugenic sterilization. SCOTUS’ shameful eugenics history: “We don’t provide the kind of justice that we claim to in our society” 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Because Eliot was 2, his reaction was to contort his face in fear, burst into tears and cry very, very loudly. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z Only Madame Merle is a Jamesian creation beyond Eliot’s ken. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Mead writes admiringly, even affectionately of Eliot, her genius and intellectual zest, her compassion. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z The classic tale first appeared in All the Year Round, a literary periodical to which Dickens was keen to have Evans/Eliot contribute. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this book is so valuable. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Eliot, who had abandoned the Evangelical religion of her youth during her twenties, wrote with a moderate, calming voice to Stuart, and advised her against challenging her friend’s presumably long-brewing spiritual choice with rational argument. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z About three and a half months later, Groucho wrote to Eliot to say that he had just read an essay about Eliot, by Stephen Spender, that had appeared in the Times Book Review. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The reviewer, Charles Powell, probably thought that Eliot's "mad medley" represented the death of poetry. Poetry is not drowning, but swimming into new territory 2013-05-30T12:16:35Z Numerous modern explanations have been offered for Hamlet’s dilatory approach to the matter of avenging his father, from Ernest Jones’s “Hamlet and Oedipus” to T. S. Eliot’s judgment that the play was a failure. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z These gaps leave us with a sketchy understanding of Eliot's emotional life, which is particularly unfortunate since his least sympathetic side is so well documented. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z James Joyce’s “Ulysses” performed last rites for Homer’s “Odyssey” and destroyed the whole of the 19th century, at least according to T. S. Eliot. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Also, his rhymes scan – it's difficult to set TS Eliot to music. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z "A German comedy is like a German sentence," George Eliot once remarked. What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z Smith’s portrayal of these encounters, however, leaves one in doubt of Eliot’s remarkable intelligence. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z If many an English-majored ear perks up at the sound of “1922,” it’s mostly because of the two somewhat ornery men who published their masterpieces that year: Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Joyce Carol Oates, in A Widow's Story, published in March, arms herself with TS Eliot's image of "shoring these fragments against our ruin". Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” drops a needle on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and stands before a Picasso painting, defining works of an age in which physics folded space and time into space-time. ‘Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical based on the writings of T. S. Eliot. L.A. theater openings, April 19-26: 'Side Show' and more 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Who is going to fund and administer the T S Eliot prizes? Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z George Eliot is a hell of a writer and I’m a big fan of the way liberal arts help us sharpen our philosophies. Kyle Pruett on Fatherhood 2012-07-23T11:00:00Z If you’re going to make a dance to a long and difficult poem, it makes sense to take Eliot’s phrases about beginnings and endings as guideposts, almost as stage directions. A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z I had never had my Jane Austen phase or Edith Wharton phase or even George Eliot phase, I associated those writers with puberty, or “courting,” both things that repelled me. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Published next month, Henry Eliot’s The Penguin Classics Book is essentially a catalogue and pictorial history of that company’s ongoing effort to make great works of literature available to everyone. Review | In praise of pretty books 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Partly drawing on the memoirs of the Treasury agent Eliot Ness and named for his incorruptible special unit, “The Untouchables” first appeared as a two-part drama broadcast by CBS’s “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse” in April 1959. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The award was established in part to celebrate Eliot, who founded the Poetry Book Society 40 years earlier. Sarah Howe Wins T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 1455-03-31T05:00:00Z Leo Tolstoy was nervous about getting the details right when he penned “War and Peace”; George Eliot dismissed the whole genre as “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.” Review | How Queen Elizabeth’s wedding dress diverted war-torn England 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and others held in the center’s archives. ArtsBeat: 92nd Street Y Reading Series Announces 75th Anniversary Season 2013-07-18T16:01:28Z Eliot and Woolf certainly, but Forster too transmuted private paralysis into astonishing monuments to collective catastrophe. 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Just months after his death, on 4 January 1965, Bob Dylan's Desolation Row described "Ezra Pound and TS Eliot/ Fighting in the captain's tower." I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z We see him answering questions put to him by a crusading judge, Sérgio Moro, an arrogant man with an Eliot Ness profile and widespread public recognition for his handling of big corruption scandals. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Chattering like a hopped-up monkey, cameras clattering around his neck, T. S. Eliot’s words rolling around in his mouth, dirty, disheveled and totally bonkers, the character is a wonder, but painful. Arts & Leisure Preview: Dennis Hopper, Riding Out the Ups and Downs 2010-04-07T15:37:00Z On any given day, you may not be in the mood for George Eliot, Jane Austen, Beethoven, Bach or the Beatles. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, an exhibition of the photographer’s work capturing images of African culture. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction As Eliot saw it, poets were less like people and more like laboratories. In Praise of Beach House 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z According to Groucho’s letter to Gummo—the only existing account of the dinner—Eliot was gracious and accommodating. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z When a large group of homosexuals from my class were assigned to live in a historically preppy house, it was decided that the group would attend the notoriously conservative Eliot House spring fete in drag. Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth 2011-01-23T00:05:41Z He went on to cite George Eliot and referred to “Middlemarch” as “one of the great books.” Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z T. S. Eliot once wrote, “But at my back in a cold blast I hear / the rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.” My Last Day as a Surgeon 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Another significant absence is any correspondence between Eliot and Emily Hale, the woman he loved for most of his life. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Not in the modern sense, though an idea of female power as a protean force was central to her thinking, as it was to the writers she loved: Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. ‘I’m Nobody’? Not a Chance, Emily Dickinson 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “He was made for marriage, he was a natural for it, a loving creature, and great fun, too,” Mrs. Eliot said in a 1994 interview. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z In 1961, T. S. Eliot wrote Groucho Marx a fan letter requesting a photograph of the comic actor and humorist. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Faber authors have always had a proprietary feeling about the place, thanks in part, no doubt, to having been welcomed into Eliot’s Club. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Finally, Eliot “asked if I remembered the courtroom scene in Duck Soup. Fortunately I’d forgotten every word. It was obviously the end of the Literary Evening.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But look, there's TS Eliot up there in his long black coat intoning Four Quartets for all our good. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z I wanted to pick Eliot up and console him, though I wasn’t sure what “She’s just not that into you” might mean to a 2-year-old. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z Remember when TS Eliot was asked what he meant by "Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree", he said: "I meant, 'Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree'." The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z Lately, though, I have found myself thinking less about Eliot’s depiction of individual characters and more about the novel’s subtitle, “A Study of Provincial Life.” How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z First there’s that of Eliot Ness — a minor police celebrity fresh from defeating Al Capone in Chicago and seasoned from his sojourn battling moonshiners in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee — who arrives in Cleveland in 1934. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Last November, growing increasingly infuriated with President Trump’s dangerous maneuvers and the rising coronavirus numbers, I put aside rereading George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” To detox from the news, I binge-watched ‘Dallas.’ It was more than just fun. 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Groucho had boned up anxiously for the evening, rereading Eliot, and King Lear as well, just in case. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Unlike Eliot and the Brontë sisters, who often set their novels in the past, Gaskell was, in her early works, at least, fiercely and explicitly concerned with the present and its problems. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Novelists, including Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and George Eliot, released their works in chapters that cost a few shillings each. Antiques: Artifacts of the Titanic at Auctions as 2012 Centennial Nears 2011-10-06T22:54:35Z Rather, Mr Crawford presents Eliot as he finds him: a nervous, unhappy individual who was also, for most of the time, a brilliant poet. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But did you know that the poet’s older brother Henry Ware Eliot Jr. had actually written one? Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a letter to her friend Alex Eliot, Diane castigated herself for being “a terrible coward, childish, hysteric, quitter,” someone who would inevitably “lie down and let everything walk over” her. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “fragments I have shored against my ruins,” but came too close, for me, to what Saul Bellow’s fictional Herzog called “the commonplaces of the Wasteland outlook.” Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z These scenes, as well as those leading up to Eliot’s marriage to Cross, are vivid and luminous. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The divisive trailer, released this summer, shows the tribe of cats, known as the Jellicles, deciding which cat will go up to the Heaviside Layer, which is not in Eliot’s original collection. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Cross, then 40, had served Eliot and her long-term partner, George Henry Lewes, as a lawyer and accountant for many years. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z Faber told Eliot and Morley that he “hopelessly failed to see what you both see in Nightwood” but insisted that “if any director is all out over a book or an author, we must do-it-him-her.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “Who would have guessed that Lydia Davis would appear on more shelves than George Eliot?” she asks. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z And he quotes the Queen Mother describing T. S. Eliot as “this rather lugubrious man in a suit” who “read a poem,” adding, “I think it was called ‘The Desert.’ ” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” TS Eliot wrote, and the same could be said of many marriages. ‘We have never lived together. Is that so strange?’: the married couples who live apart 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Eliot thought the play was consequentially an artistic failure, but it is exactly this dissonance between Hamlet and the hackneyed avenger storyline that gave rise to an unprecedented classic. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Tiresias makes his appearance in a wide range of literature: he pops up in Metamorphoses, narrates part of TS Eliot's The Waste Land and is condemned to the eighth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z Eliot’s poems provided “the perfect outline for an entertainment,” Mr. Lloyd Webber said. Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Even though Eliot was, in the words of Henry James, “magnificently ugly,” she nonetheless radiated a charismatic allure never captured in surviving images. Review | Why Darwin grew that iconic beard and other tales of the Victorian era 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The Mermaids Singing was followed by The Wire in the Blood – a quote from TS Eliot – and McDermid was launched into a mainstream audience that has brought many honours, including that stand at Raith. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z “We are very grateful for the support,” she said, “and are pleased that there is still a connection between Eliot and the Brontës all these years later.” T.S. Eliot’s Estate Donates ‘Cats’ Royalties to Brontë Museum 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Anxiety being what Eliot called "the handmaiden to creativity", he did not need to write poetry any more. Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate 2012-11-13T12:01:10Z So when Eliot died, Valerie was able to carry on as before, acting as secretary to a celestial poet, rather than an earthbound one. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z Or it inspires facile parallels with contemporary political movements while producing some fine folk tales about Eliot Ness, Al Capone, pious preachers, flappers, bootleggers, the Charleston and the speakeasy. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z “Don’t forget we’ve got Tom Eliot and Sigmund Freud to sell too.” 'I felt kind of promiscuous': Gemma Arterton on Vita and Virginia 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z It is curious that there was no thank-you note from Groucho to Eliot after the dinner. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot published "The Wasteland," one of the first and bleakest visions of a shattered modern world. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Eliot, the other protagonist in the modernist revolution, “was for the first time in my knowledge, rapt, enthusiastic,” on reading “Ulysses.” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z He wanted T. S. Eliot to provide a text, but Eliot, on seeing Tippett’s sketches, urged him to set his own words. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z Walcott's collection White Egrets, which won him the TS Eliot prize for poetry in January, is probably the most prominent contender. ?50,000 prize for books about 'colour' announces shortlist 2011-02-11T17:19:55Z There will be readers who approach Ms. Coleman’s book already knowing a good deal about her illustrious father, Eliot, who became widely celebrated in the world of organic farming. Books of The Times: Back-to-the-Land Life Recalled in Dark and Light 2011-04-06T21:15:45Z In his statement, Eliot said he realized after his wife’s death that he had only been in love with “the memory” of Hale. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Eliot had a well-known need to love and be loved. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The winner will be presented with a cheque for £15,000, donated by the T S Eliot Trustees. T S Eliot prize shortlist announced 2013-10-24T13:51:10Z He still considers the work unfinished, he said, and just last week he spent four hours with the guitarist Eliot Fisk, for whom it was written, tweaking the solo guitar line. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z Groucho was an avid reader, and an admirer of Eliot's, so he must have been delighted, one day in 1961, to get a fan letter from the poet requesting a signed photograph. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Both Bloom and Eliot see tradition as a kind of family. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Eliot — and yes, the poet wrote in it. Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Having survived Hitler's bombing, the rather battered manuscript was sent to the office of TS Eliot, then an important editor at Faber & Faber. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “American Standard,” named after a toilet brand, riffs for pages on lines from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while churning through contemporary concerns like gerrymandering, immigration, and grotesque politicians and their media platforms. Five Poets Who Find Music in the Personal, the Political or in Music Itself 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Scholars and Eliot devotees have been left wondering why the poet went to such great lengths to undermine the feelings he expressed in them. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z But he speaks the lines in a conversational manner quite unlike Eliot's sepulchral, Anglican-pulpit style. A Late Quartet – review 2013-04-06T23:06:19Z “I cannot believe that there has ever been a woman with whom I could have felt so completely at one as with Valerie,” Eliot wrote in the statement. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z In The New York Times, Eliot Fremont-Smith called it “one of the most revealing and engrossing books on film art, technique and history ever put together.” At the Movies With François and Hitch 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Tarm had done nothing to prepare audiences for this interpolation: His program note consisted in its entirety of a few lines from T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men.” An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The literary executors of TS Eliot, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell have also held back letters and diaries from would-be biographers. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Whether the influence is direct or indirect—whether a given literary essay has been influenced by Eliot’s critical brio, or by one who has been influenced by it—literary criticism today everywhere bears his impress. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z I loved TS Eliot, and had not only failed to recognise, in my sleepy state, a famous set of lines, even worse I had totally rubbished them. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z Gordon links five visionaries who made literary history — George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf — through their shared understanding of death and violence. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Groucho and Eliot had been promising to visit each other for three years before Groucho finally came for dinner at the Eliots, in June of 1964. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot was a literary mandarin, the confident product of St. Louis Wasp gentry, and an elliptical Catholic royalist given to grave, decorous outbursts of anti-semitism. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z George Eliot and Mary Shelley were, by far, the best women writers of the era. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z Eliot in the press of her sentences, the crisp progress of her rhyming couplets. In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z It was a veritable temple devoted to the past two or three centuries of first-rate, secondhand and antiquarian books: the Brontë sisters, the Mitford sisters, George Eliot, James Joyce, James Jones, Henry James. A Bookworm’s Travel Plan 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z In “Tradition,” Eliot closely echoes—the better to reject—Pater’s claim: “in this depersonalisation . . . art may be said to approach the condition of science.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot and describes this theme as "the larger threnody lamenting the death of criticism." Movie critics: Shut up already! 2010-04-15T19:55:00Z Eliot drew the book’s cover illustration: a dandy helping a line of cats climb over a wall. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Eliot wrote in “East Coker,” a poem in his famed collection “Four Quartets.” ArtsBeat Blog: T.S. Eliot Devotees Angered by Plans to Develop East Coker 2011-08-15T22:13:09Z Toby writes that he “immediately brought a new sense of purpose to Faber’s literary publishing, acquiring writers whose importance rivals those brought onto the list by Eliot in the 1930s.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z While there’s warmth both spiritual and physical in her home, this weekend Ms. Eliot will bring the show across the street to Manhattan’s oldest house, the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z George Eliot's portrayal of the headstrong Maggie Tulliver is so tender, so insightful, so moving, and the complexities of her relationship with her brother and lovers so perceptively described. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z As an explanation for these remarkable encounters, the narrator tells us that Eliot’s desires simply overcame her and she submitted. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z A newcomer to England, Eliot looked to London as a city that once had been a center of civilization. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Eliot’s whimsical “Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats,” the musical opened in London in 1981, running for 21 years there and 18 years on Broadway. ‘Cats’ gets rap twist for West End revival 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z The encounter with Eliot brought out Groucho’s characteristic tendency to hide his embarrassment about his origins by pushing them in his audience’s face. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Within a year, the piece was included in Eliot’s first critical collection, “The Sacred Wood,” published in November, 1920. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Here, in 1921, Eliot, who had come to the town on doctor’s orders after a nervous collapse, looked out onto the English Channel as he worked on “The Waste Land.” 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z His final, stretched-out “Shantih” injects a strange intimacy following a thunderous “DA,” announcing rain — water as a sign of the spiritual fertility that Eliot longed for all his life. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Eliot recognized when he paid them homage: “How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot!/ With his features of clerical cut. . . ” Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The Marvel Fumetti Book, published in 1983, is a comic book anthology using black and white photographs by Eliot R. Brown to tell its stories. The Many Cameos of Stan Lee 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z The author David Lodge makes use of this paradox in his 1984 academic farce “Small World,” whose young academic Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis on “The Influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Proceeds from the Christie's sale will go to Old Possum's Practical Trust, an arts charity Valerie Eliot set up with some of the money from "Cats." AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z Would Mary Ann Evans, for example, have secured VC funding for The Mill on the Floss if she hadn’t presented as George Eliot? Initial impressions: will hiding my name force gender equality in the workplace? 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Both suffer breakdowns; these nervous attacks and bitter sexual recriminations underpin Eliot’s poem. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z She published “Songs of a Semite” and dedicated the book to George Eliot, whose novel “Daniel Deronda” hit her with the force of revelation. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z The absence is striking in light of the 19th-century works that followed hers, in the genre she helped pioneer — novels by Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot in which death begins as much as it ends. In Jane Austen’s Pages, Death Has No Dominion 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z I mean, what if Shakespeare eats with his mouth open and George Eliot fails to bring a cake? How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z For instance, George Eliot and Marcel Proust are writers who understand politics, the history of the arts, moral philosophy but can render the force of the passions. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z And then, too, as Damrosch points out, there was no George Eliot, no Virginia Woolf: “It never ceased to be a club for men.” The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” adding “there is nothing that it does not say.” Michael Dirda browses books that will make you love reading 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which of course begins, “Shall we go then, you and I, while the evening is spread out across the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.” My Grateful Dead romance: My favorite polyphonic jam, one more time for us all 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z One can never know for sure, of course, but I have a niggling suspicion that Eliot, had he been still with us, would not have been a Sex and the City chap. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z James had reviewed it, lamenting that Eliot had created a brilliant but “wasted” heroine in Dorothea because Eliot had released her from a bad marriage. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Eliot shows, however, that Mr. Brooke’s commitment to reform is, at best, insubstantial. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Humankind, as TS Eliot pointed out, cannot bear too much reality. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z Eliot sides with Mr. Albee in making the point that our denial of ourselves crushes us more than it protects us. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z T. S. Eliot warned in “Four Quartets” that though nature seemed like a “solved” problem, “in the sombre season or the sudden fury” it was a “reminder of what men choose to forget.” Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Neuwirth does show us Toole lecturing on “Prufrock,” in scenes meant to probe for signs of frustration and despair in his dissection of Eliot lines like “Do I dare disturb the universe?” Review: In ‘Mr. Toole,’ Trying to Remember Teacher 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z One Sunday evening last January, 2,000 people of all ages gathered in the Royal Festival Hall to listen to the 10 poets shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize read from their work. Will funding cuts be good for the arts? 2011-04-02T23:11:13Z He ends the letter still refusing to acknowledge Eliot’s wife Valerie, and reminding both of Eliot’s less-than-Bloomsbury origins: “My best to you and Mrs. Tom.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Writers such as Eliot and Nietzsche are presumed to be a turnoff for most audiences, so audiences are protected from them. Review | A French exhibition of Francis Bacon turns him into that pseudointellectual dude from college 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Sharon Olds took the poetry Pulitzer for her TS Eliot award-winning collection about her divorce, Stag's Leap, which judges called "a book of unflinching poems … that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge". Pulitzer prize goes to novel about North Korea 2013-04-16T11:36:36Z Janacek’s Violin Sonata proved amenable to the saxophone in an arrangement by Eliot Gattegno, who performed his new version with the pianist Michael Brown. Music Review: Janacek and Mahler in Moving Sounds Festival - Review 2011-09-20T21:00:08Z Such details serve to humanise Eliot, who otherwise remains a distant figure. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z The intertwining of the natural world — particularly on the coast — with social and emotional forces evoked in Woolf and Eliot’s writing allow these exhibitions to explore artists’ engagement with land and sea from unconventional perspectives. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Eliot comes off less as a desiring subject, however, and more as an object of inappropriate advances, to which she acquiesces with seemingly little will of her own. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Tennessee Williams wrote after days as a clerk at the International Shoe Company, Kafka after insurance, TS Eliot after banking. Writing at night 2010-12-21T15:05:18Z He has said that he used his initials because doing so seemed serious and adult, in the manner of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z But when Eliot’s widow Valerie gave him her husband’s unpublished poem “Rhapsody on a Windy Night,” Lloyd Webber knew he’d found his showstopper. "Cats" is a mesmerizing laser pointer for your brain 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Eliot sees how we push around our ancestors; Bloom sees how our ancestors push us around. Misreading Harold Bloom 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She writes about how the book changed her perspectives on life as she got older, and how she visited places from Eliot’s life. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Eliot’s, of course — and that turned out to be the most influential book in his life. Interview: Ralph Ellison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z T. S. Eliot described what we know as a “heap of broken images.” A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Its title was pure Eliot: “The Presence of the Past.” The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z George Eliot translated Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity fluently and flexibly, and its influence is strong in her work. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z TS Eliot said something similar: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." Coat-stealing isn't art, Mike Ballard 2010-10-10T21:30:00Z The show has a score by the British songwriters Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham. ArtsBeat: ‘Finding Neverland’ to Have U.S. Premiere at American Repertory Theater 2014-03-27T21:00:57Z Meanwhile, for the first time, I attended to the lyrics of the song and understood, to my horror, precisely what level of damage it inflicts on poor old Eliot. “Cats” Reviewed: It’s Not Quite Weird Enough 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z What Eliot valued about Miss Fletcher was her clockwork efficiency, absolute discretion and complete understanding of how his mind worked. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z “You have made me perfectly happy: that is, happier than I have ever been in my life,” Eliot wrote in one of the letters, according to The Guardian. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z But it also contains an even more intriguing parenthetical aside about the "difficult case" of George Eliot, who wrote not out of frustration, but "as an extension of the womanly duty of mediation". Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Eliot’s phrase, “had the experience but missed the meaning.” A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Eliot’s idea that with Shakespeare we can never be right, but can only “from time to time change our way of being wrong.” ‘The Hollow Crown,’ on PBS, Retells Shakespearean History 2013-09-12T16:18:13Z Eliot was too good a writer, though, not to use the boys in her books. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z Coleridge was instrumental in his initial rediscovery, but his reputation was only firmly reestablished by Eliot. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury Their recordings, completed during the poet’s lifetime, perhaps felt the impress of Eliot’s neutrality. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Unbeknownst to the author of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, he and Eliot had originally met in 1852, before Mary Ann Evans began writing under her male pseudonym. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z None was more anticipated nor captivating as his yet untitled documentary about Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York. Al-Qaeda to Zonad: Highlights from Tribeca Fest 2010-05-02T21:16:00Z Eliot claims that she wrote to him twice a week at this time, but none of those letters appear here. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Eliot, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948, was considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. T.S. Eliot's summer house for sale for $1.3 million 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z By the time of his graduation, Eliot had begun his self-metamorphosis into an academic powerhouse. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z My question – as a reader moderately well-versed in 19th-century literature, a Dickens, Eliot and Collins fan – is this: is Scott actually worth reading? Is it worth reading Sir Walter Scott? 2010-08-17T14:02:00Z In addition to the talk, the Cabaret Voltaire founder, who recently held a Nature Disco at the Port Eliot Festival, will also be performing a live sound mix. This week's new events 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral,” spinning Eliot’s observation about morality into a squall of questions about ethics and motives. ‘A Hero’ Review: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis’ Like moths to the light, the great writers of the early 20th century seemed drawn to Sydney and Violet Schiff’s orbit. ‘Sidney and Violet’: inside a charmed literary circle 2013-08-28T22:24:55Z So even as he was basking in Eliot’s admiration, he seemed to feel compelled to cause Eliot some discomfort. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “My Life in Middlemarch” charts Mead’s quest to draw closer to Eliot and her time. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z He’s enormously proud of being asked to be the voice of TS Eliot by the poet’s widow, Valerie; he hopes his gentle, sober radio reading of Four Quartets is among his best work. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Friday’s intense concert by the Arditti Quartet with guitarist Eliot Fisk at the Library of Congress kicked up all sorts of ruminations about the very nature of “music” and how we are to process it. Lots of sound but little recognizable music in Arditti Quartet’s performance 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Eliot fell in love with the married critic George Henry Lewes when she was 32, a hopeless spinster by the standards of the day. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z Eliot had effectively turned his back on her, though they were still legally married when she died in 1947. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z Schwartz also wrote a mass of inferior work and the tin-eared Atlas is forced to praise his feeble imitations of Eliot. Literary biography: possibility and peril 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across Groucho’s exchanges with Eliot. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot, they do have metaphorical import for humans. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Given that Eliot made this assertion in 1961, nearly 25 years after In Parenthesis was first published, its remaining a minority interest was already likely. The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z Eliot Kennedy is a Grammy Award-winning British songwriter and music producer. Top 10 tips for being a music producer 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Literature begins to take over, and we get Dennis Hopper quoting Eliot "We are the hollow men" and "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper." Apocalypse Now: Archive review 2010-10-19T10:54:00Z Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the narrator famously recalls, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." Two years later, I’m still measuring life in Martini glasses 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Eliot and the war works of the painter Francisco de Goya, as well as the songs of rock groups like The Doors, The Pogues and The Velvet Underground. ArtsBeat Blog: P.J. Harvey Nabs a Second Mercury Prize 2011-09-06T22:52:07Z He recently announced his engagement to Lady Bianca Eliot, who will become his third wife. Rare items from home of UK's Diana to be auctioned 2010-03-29T20:01:00Z Smith spends considerable space documenting Eliot’s early years, however, when she painfully lacked it. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z For 80 minutes, in Eliot’s words, “time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future,” but 2020 recedes. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Photograph: SNAP/Rex Just maybe, though, the moral of Sullivan’s Travels is right: humankind cannot, as TS Eliot wrote, stand very much reality. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The Port Eliot festival Photograph: guardian.co.uk Set in the enchanting grounds of a Cornwall country estate over a late July weekend, the Port Eliot festival began in 2003 as a literary festival. Competition: Win a pair of tickets to the Port Eliot festival 2010-06-30T16:27:00Z Eliot Prize for her debut collection “Loop of Jade” on Monday evening. Sarah Howe Wins T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 1455-03-31T05:00:00Z When T. S. Eliot published his seminal manifesto, he could boast only a thin volume of poems and a handful of essays, but he had confidence to spare. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot’s suggestion is both outlandish and already, in 1916, a critical commonplace. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z I've read how, "at parties the Eliots would hold hands and gaze at each other like lovesick teenagers". Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate 2012-11-13T12:01:10Z "Human kind," wrote TS Eliot in Four Quartets, "cannot bear very much reality." Why can't theatre cope with too much reality? 2012-07-03T12:22:08Z “The existing order is complete,” Eliot explains, “before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Many of the early verses in this complete volume show Larkin’s struggle to find a voice of his own; they reverberate with echoes of Yeats, Auden and Eliot. Books of The Times: Philip Larkin?s Complete Poems, Edited by Archie Burnett 2012-04-09T21:28:30Z Inspired by the vegetation ceremonies described in Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, Eliot paints a sweeping portrait of the European zeitgeist, and that of London in particular after the first world war. TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 – a multimedia walk 2012-07-30T11:14:00Z Eliot’s playful collection of poems on feline psychology, is what the long-running Broadway show is based on. Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Many have speculated about Eliot’s sex life before Lewes, assuming she probably was not a virgin. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Compared to the buried anxieties that Eliot stirred in Groucho, though, Eliot’s strenuous bonhomie seemed like the height of social tact. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Cats, which has not been seen in London for 12 years, is based on TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Scherzinger debuts in Cats musical 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Now, in what TS Eliot, with great prescience, called "this twittering world", I just google the key phrase of the half-remembered quote. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Smith provides not one but three lovers for Eliot, which by itself is not incredulous. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z That’s how Kids Dance, the company led by the choreographer Eliot Feld, ended its exuberant program at the Joyce Theater on Thursday. Review: Kids Dance Begins With Poise, Ends With Shrieks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Eliot Feld’s talented group of young dancers takes over the Joyce with spirited repertory, including the program opener of his esteemed “A Stair Dance,” dedicated to the memory of Gregory Hines. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “O conversation the staff of life,” the young T. S. Eliot wrote to his Harvard friend and fellow poet Conrad Aiken in 1914. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Dante's reverence for the imperial papacy made Ezra Pound and TS Eliot think of him as a proto-fascist; for Wilson he bracingly refutes the milky commiseration that sustains our expensive welfare state. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z It’s also a shock for Savannah, to whom Eliot leaves half the company. Feel-good books to brighten your summer 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z This is not mainly because Eliot was a raving intellectual, but because he was a chap. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z He went on to train and perform with Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech, where he was a particularly luxuriant dancer — sinewy and naïve, yet coolly confident. Dance Review: ?Stations? Turns Tables on Audience at Abrons Arts 2010-06-27T23:20:00Z Eliot included these poems in letters to entertain his godchildren and signed them “Old Possum.” Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Eliot Goldberg served as senior vice president of unscripted programming. AMC backs away from unscripted programming, re-shifts focus to scripted 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Eliot didn’t much care for the month of April, with its heartbreaking scent of lilacs. Body Parts and Missing Bodies: Another Spree of Crime Fiction 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Thanks to a new, free audio tour for kids, Luther and Eliot raced from gallery to gallery in the West Building as if on a scavenger hunt. Budget Getaway: D.C. Urban Education 2010-10-27T21:31:00Z TS Eliot used them at the beginning of Portrait of a Lady to illustrate male indifference to female suffering. The shameful history of silence on child abuse 2012-10-06T23:06:33Z Critics hailed her as America’s “foremost novelist” and the only American woman writer in the same league as George Eliot. Erased from history: Too many women writers — like Constance Fenimore Woolson — are left to languish in moldy archives. What will it take to bring them back? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Eliot's more offhand antisemitism is equally dismaying: Laura Riding's poetry exhibits "a variety of Jewish cleverness", while Samuel Roth's unscrupulous exploitation of copyright loopholes is an example of "New York Jewish piracy". The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929by Valerie Eliot By this stage of his life, temperamental resistance was intensified by professional circumstance. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and other leading poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Chicago-based Poetry Foundation hires new president 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z David Brower of the Sierra Club published a book titled “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World” with excerpts from Thoreau’s nature writings accompanied by the landscape photography of Eliot Porter. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Eliot wrote back two weeks later, saying, “I think that Stephen Spender was only attempting to enumerate oil and water colour pictures and not photographs—I trust so.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all from this day forward. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z Henry James would've thrown Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Eliot to the dogs if only to learn from Tintoretto. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z You know that Eliot line from The Waste Land: 'Hurry up please, it's time'? George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z For Eliot, the poet doesn’t serve as a medium but has a medium: “The poet has, not a ‘personality’ to express,” Eliot writes, “but a particular medium . . . and not a personality.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Yet she was also instrumental in encouraging Eliot to write poetry; she was an early reader of “The Waste Land”, inserting a line of her own in it and scribbling praise in the margins. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Port Eliot, at St Germans, began as a small books event in 2003 and now includes music, food, fashion, art, a flower show and comedy. Martin Scorsese to curate Port Eliot film festival 2011-03-25T18:48:34Z Some of my favorites are Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Flaubert’s “Salammbô,” James’s “The Golden Bowl” and Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury.” Amy Chua: By the Book 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Valerie refused even modest applications for permission to quote from Eliot's writings. Valerie Eliot 2012-11-12T16:41:09Z Eliot Feld’s charming company of young dancers, between the ages of 11 and 18, returns to the Joyce with a selection of his lively classics, including “Apple Pie,” “The Jig Is Up” and “Meshugana Dance.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Eliot's "The Waste Land," is an analytical blend of journalism, literary criticism and memoir that — like her earlier book, "Uncommon Arrangements," about unconventional literary marriages — tackles a personal obsession. In 'The Violet Hour,' Katie Roiphe looks at five great writers shuffling off this mortal coil 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Partly this is because so few documents exist: between 1905, when Eliot was 16 years old, and 1910, all that survives from his correspondence is a single postcard. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z To me, he belonged with Joyce, Woolf and Eliot, yet I never saw him among their ranks. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In “Tradition,” Eliot explicitly rejects that formula, calling it “inexact”: “it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor, without distortion of meaning, tranquility.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Without the commitment and illuminating encouragement of Valerie Eliot, what Professor Haffenden has called "one of the major editorial enterprises of our time" would not have evolved. Letter: Valerie Eliot was an expert editor of her husband's letters 2012-11-15T13:48:00Z “If Eliot thinks I’m pushy, I know other moms who are worse,” she said. Special Issue: Gay Marriage: Ready to Wed? No, Mom. 2011-07-22T19:37:03Z Close by Ezra Pound was reading through a bit of manuscript left him by a young friend with exhausted nerves, Tom Eliot, on his way to a rest cure in Lausanne. Ernest Hemingway and the highs and lows of Paris 2012-05-17T10:19:37Z Eliot’s argument is encapsulated in the duelling poles of his title, which might almost read “Tradition vs. the Individual Talent.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z If the Johns Hopkins edition of Eliot is a cathedral, this little Yale volume is a snug rural cottage. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Eliot wanted one with Groucho sporting his famous mustache and holding his signature cigar. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z If so, does he deserve a place next to Thomas Mann and T. S. Eliot? Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet for them, and for Irons too, the poet appears one of us, which is to say that in all these recordings Eliot becomes more English than I think he really was. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Bosanquet had always been a huge fan of James's work, just as Valerie Fletcher had long harboured a schoolgirl crush on Eliot. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z He was Mr Eliot to her, she was Miss Fletcher to him. Valerie Eliot 2012-11-12T16:41:09Z In a statement Sunday, the Eliot estate said Valerie Eliot died two days before at her London home after a short illness. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z He delved into the literary canon revered by angry young men everywhere: Nabokov, Eliot, Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Benjamin Scheuer and a life told in heartbreaking song at the Geffen 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Before long it was decided — by the people who decide such things — that T. S. Eliot was the greatest poet of the 20th century. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Now Eliot was clearly shrinking, but I urged him on, food usually being a reliable topic of conversation. Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z Even more directly, Eliot the schoolmaster continues to influence students of literature. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The laughs are too telegraphed, and the caramel pop tunes by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy, played by an orchestra of eight, gum up your ears, cresting exactly as expected. Review | ‘Finding Neverland’ musical at National Theatre needs a better hook 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Although Eliot's poetry is notoriously open to interpretation, one reading of that line might be an image of existential boredom, the sense that the world is random and therefore frighteningly meaningless. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z In a book that I wrote about Eliot, “My Life in Middlemarch,” I described returning to her greatest novel at different stages of life and discovering its changing resonances. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A business letter to her father from TS Eliot is tucked inside her copy of his Poems. From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z The family calls her brother "the Eliot Ness of Whiplash", she said, after the legendary Chicago law enforcement officer who spent years trying to nail the gangster Al Capone in prohibition-era Chicago. Tom Hiddleston to play Coriolanus at Donmar Warehouse 2013-05-20T13:53:58Z She described her mermaid princess costume and the festivities at her house, and then asked, “What did you dress up as, Eliot?” Modern Love: He Had Her Attention, and Then He Lost It 2010-04-16T20:55:00Z Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism, but the real future may just be scarier. Books of The Times: Beach Reads From Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen and More 2013-06-06T21:14:31Z I was interested to revisit them too, to find traces of George Eliot through the present day. Gillian Wearing on George Eliot: 'She spoke of life from every side' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z When a family friend who knew Eliot mentioned that he was looking for a secretary, she applied. Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z But here was Eliot, writing to Groucho to ask him to send along a different photograph than the official studio shot that Groucho had first mailed. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Michigan in 1933 and entered Harvard at a time when the historian Samuel Eliot Morison still rode to campus on horseback. Daniel Aaron, Critic and Historian Who Pioneered American Studies, Dies at 103 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The film, adapted from a play by Michael Hastings, presented Eliot as the villain of the marriage and suggested that Vivienne Haigh-Wood may have written swaths of “The Waste Land.” Valerie Eliot, Wife and Editor of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86 2012-11-13T02:16:22Z TS Eliot wrote that great works of art exist in a timeless continuum. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Jack was corrupt, and I don't think you can say that Eliot Spitzer was corrupt. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z Hale gave the letters to Princeton in 1956 with the instructions that they be opened 50 years after both she and Eliot had died. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” and the first English translation of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” came out that year. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z In Eliot’s book, Mr. Mistoffelees is a precious creation; in the musical, he is a gay icon, bedazzled like the night sky, sometimes pulling off twenty-four fouetté turns in a row. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The Letters of TS Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 In order to escape from the turmoil of his personal life, Eliot buried himself in work. The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 3 - review 2012-07-13T21:55:08Z Meanwhile, fifty years after the death of the author was announced and a century after Eliot’s belated obituary for Romanticism, “Tradition” still pulses with energy and life, what the poststructuralists would have called jouissance. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z And this is no less true of Jane Austen, left, and George Eliot than it is of Tolstoy and Dickens. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z Several chronicles are relayed by familiar names in history and exploration: Eliot Warburton, Henry M. Stanley, Mungo Park. Amid the pandemic, a writer finds inspiration in century-old travel stories 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Eliot Spitzer, who as the state's attorney general initiated fraud lawsuits against major U.S. investment banks. Cannes doc 'Inside Job' pegs 2008 crisis as heist 2010-05-17T15:46:00Z Raimund is as parched and pedantic a creature as T. S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock, and Mr. Irons voices his thoughts in a tone of sepulchral weariness that contradicts the character’s supposed awakening. Movie Review: Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ 2013-12-05T23:12:57Z Eliot poems into a stage musical with actors playing the feline roles seemed like an unlikely concept for a show. Andrew Lloyd Webber beams as ‘Cats’ film has its premiere 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z A page from T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” is taped to a bedroom door. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z He thinks, as Victorian idealists such as George Eliot did, that the purpose of good books is to teach one how to live better. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and James Joyce’s “Ulysses” appeared in 1922, the outstanding books of 1923 may not leap readily to mind. Review | The copyright has expired on thousands of books. Here are the best ones to read. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Eliot’s famous quote: “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” First impressions of Don Henley's first solo album in 15 years, 'Cass County' 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Certainly at the time she did not know that Eliot had been unhappily married to his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood, who was eventually committed to an asylum. Valerie Eliot 2012-11-12T16:41:09Z Indeed, poetry was always at the heart of Eliot’s interest as critic and editor, and it became crucial to Faber & Faber’s identity. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Needing money for his new life, Eliot landed a steady job in a London bank, while also launching a career as a lecturer, editor and reviewer. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The painting depicts, among others, Anton Chekhov, TS Eliot and Charles Ives together with the names of their actual careers: medicine, banking and insurance. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z I used to wonder if “the peace which passeth understanding,” Eliot’s note to this word, was building or fading. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “Realizing that it was from the T.S. Eliot estate was a very special moment,” she said. T.S. Eliot’s Estate Donates ‘Cats’ Royalties to Brontë Museum 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Recently I was able to test this out when I ran a Poetry Prescriptions tent at the Port Eliot festival. Paperback Q&A: William Sieghart on Winning Words 2012-07-31T17:33:00Z According to TS Eliot, this is the only book in the western tradition that surpasses Shakespeare. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z Austen’s cult has been rivalled by the cults of Dickens, Tolstoy, Eliot, Joyce, Hemingway, Lawrence, and Fitzgerald, among others. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z “The stamp of acceptance by Eliot came to have more and more significance,” Toby writes. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z As one writer put it eloquently, while considering T. S. Eliot’s work, form is the electricity the poem plugs into. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z For a while he was, at the same time, the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Few previous biographies have been able to delve into the early years of Eliot’s life. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Smith handles this deftly, showing Eliot’s conflicted eagerness for and fear of sexual contact with the handsome young man — fear because of how he might respond to her aging body. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Young Eliot” is the most carefully researched life to date. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biographyby Nancy Henry It is a bold start to what is clearly intended as a different kind of biography. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z The poetry specialist may relish these poems for their link with TS Eliot's similar project, in "East Coker", of reclaiming an English country past for himself. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z Waugh took his title from a line in TS Eliot's signature text of modernism The Waste Land: "I'll show you fear in a handful of dust". One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z “Eliot clearly worked on sound and repetition of words and images. This is similar to a composer’s work.” A Choreographer Unafraid of Masterpieces Takes on T.S. Eliot 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z As George Eliot once warned, “The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.” Was Churchill a Great Man? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z During their marriage, Eliot wrote some of his most celebrated poems, including “Burnt Norton,” which many scholars believe was inspired in part by Hale. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z And then the rim-shot, at which Eliot excelled: “But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z Eliot Prize for Poetry on Monday for "Stag's Leap", a critically acclaimed collection that traces the end of her marriage 15 years ago. Poet Sharon Olds wins T.S. Eliot award 2013-01-14T19:54:58Z So even as he was pleased by Groucho’s grateful acknowledgment of his attention, Eliot was anxious to convince Groucho of his good faith toward Jews. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z “When it works really well,” he added, “it’s the T.S. Eliot that underpins us.” Just Say ‘Cats,’ and Watch the Fur Fly 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Keats, in 1818, had already propounded his own “impersonal theory of poetry,” one that Eliot certainly knew. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z As Ariel Kaminer reported in The New York Times on Sunday, working or teaching at universities has recently become a popular path of redemption for disgraced public figures, from Eliot Spitzer to Mr. Galliano. On the Runway Blog: No Teaching Gig for Galliano 2013-05-07T22:36:09Z Yet when Smith tries to fill in the long life that preceded Eliot’s final months, the prose sags and reminds one too much of stale biographical exposition. George Eliot’s brief marriage got off to a really, really bad start 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Rather, Eliot insists, “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z The key figure to whom he gave this trust was Eliot—who, as agreed, gave Faber his books, starting with “Poems 1909-1925.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Recently, I visited the writer Eliot Weinberger at his home, in the West Village, in Manhattan. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Eliot, “Cats” follows the Jellicles group of felines, who annually decide who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer. Lots of fur, few purrs as critics claw 'Cats' musical film 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Crawford devotes an entire chapter to what Eliot found so exciting, noting, for instance, that one of Laforgue’s lines could be translated “I will have spent my life in failing to embark.” T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Could Eliot really have hung a picture of Groucho on a wall next to the two greatest poets of the twentieth century? The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Described by author Hanif Kureishi as “a sort of upmarket pop festival”, Port Eliot offers talks by authors, live music, outdoor film screenings, a wardrobe department and a flower show. The 5 Best UK Literary Festivals of 2014 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z But the authors also cite works by Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone, Eliot Noyes, and more for helping develop an architectural style celebrated for its “simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature.” Minimalism Even A Maximalist Could Love 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Johnson conceived of the film in four acts, each related to an Eliot quote. The Inspiration Issue: Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine 2012-09-26T16:08:34Z I read “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, at least once a year because I want to curl up inside Eliot’s warm intelligence. Lauren Groff: By the Book 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Eliot is like the smartest kid in the room with his hand up, but the teacher’s not calling on him,” said his former political advertising aide, Jimmy Siegel. Eliot Spitzer?s Long Road to Redemption 2010-04-07T22:51:00Z |
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