If fame is the name of your desire, writing about literature is among the least likely ways to find it. From the 17th century until today, only four literary critics, John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel ...

VIOLENT contrasts racked his life and art. His poems could be golden and struck by grace, split by the metaphysical hammer of God; but his most golden lines were yoked to an ironic, satanic vision of ...

How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? Should we read poetry, for example, with an eye on biography, or merely focus on ...

On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...

In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet TS Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon ...

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Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. Like many millennials, I was educated, if that’s the right word for it, on the internet. The ...