In the unlikely event that there are Eliot/Wasteland fans here...

[MsAmerica]

Certainly to for everyone, but if the forum has any scholarly T. S. Eliot experts, this may be of interest. I'm familiar with Hollow Men and Prufrock, but this is beyond me.

The Shock and Aftershocks of “The Waste Land”
T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece is a hundred years old, but it has never stopped sounding new.
By Anthony Lane

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-shock-and-aftershocks-of-the-waste-land

Guess there's still no way to edit this. Meant to say: Certainly not for everyone.

Hi I'm not a huge Eliot fan but have some of his phrases by heart. I was prejudiced against him by the film Tom and Viv, also I thought Hemingway's jealousy of Eliot was very funny, top class literary feuding. Thanks for posting this.

Thank you. I like TSE.

I love The Wasteland. I studied in my English lit class earlier this year. I don't profess to have any deep understanding of it but it has stuck with me.

I’m a huge Waste Land fan. I was lucky enough to see Fiona Shaw perform it as a one-woman show about 10-15 years ago. If there’s a video of her amazing performance out there, it would be well worth watching.

Four Quartets fan. Always more to be chipped away to reveal a something further with Eliot.

"As if blown towards me like the metal leaves" from Little Gidding staggered me, because dry leaves on pavement DO sound like metal, they sort of scrape. Since reading that I always hear it now. This really established TSE for me as a truthful poet, to be relied on.

Did anyone hear the R4 programme recently, Women of the Waste Land? Definitely worth catching up with.

Link here

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool

Fiona Shaw

I’m getting my coffee spoons ready.

I saw her twice, once in Ireland and once in London. She was mesmerising.

I love The Waste Land. When I was a postgrad in London, I used to teach a summer school and take students on TWL and Mrs Dalloway walks.

Thanks, @Ogonek!

@Divilment I love the sound of your walks. A friend of mine once treated his baffled but willing Taiwanese wife on a Waste Land tour of London.

Treated to, that should say.

Ohhh thank you for that Fiona Shaw / Wasteland link.

Shall have that for a treat later today.

Wow, I'm so pleased at the replies. I thought this would languish with no reaction. I was interested in the article about the live performances it mentions.