![]() ![]() Later we have a more free-wheeling chat about Eliot and his impact with Hannah Sullivan, who is a Tutor in English at New College, Oxford, and whose debut collection Three Poems was awarded the T. And notably, her own debut poetry collection, Unbound, comes out next month. An interview with Gabrielle McIntire, who is Professor of English at Queen’s University in Canada and editor of The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, orients our conversation about this poem. Two specialists, both of whom are poets and literary scholars, offer wonderful contributions to this episode. So we discuss what to make of so many fragmentary images and sounds, while also asking how they reflect a postwar moment of dramatic historical and cultural change. Those voices range from the parodic to the sacred, as the poem interweaves hundreds of allusions to mythology, major world religions, literary classics, dance hall tunes, a nursery rhyme, and conversations from daily English life. Written in the aftermath of the Great War, this long poem uses a diverse array of voices to convey a sense of disillusionment with modern life. This week we wander through The Waste Land by T. ![]()
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