"We can't avoid reading Shakespeare through the lens of T.S. Eliot's poetry. I mean, who can read Hamlet today without thinking of 'Prufrock'? Who can hear the speeches of Ferdinand in The Tempest without being reminded of 'The Fire Sermon'?"

"The Waste Land is really all about Eliot's fear of impotence and sterility"

Readings on The Waste Land:

T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent

Hugh Kenner, The Death of Europe,

Jay Martin, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

© Jan Rybicki 2006