memorably captured by Eliot in a critical essay he wrote on Ulysses, “Ulysses, Order and Myth”. Here he described the emotional, political and intellectual landscape of the time as “the ...

Almost exactly 100 years ago, T.S. Eliot published a wildly experimental, cacophonous and moving poem of despair and spiritual hunger, forged in the flames and devastation of the First World War.

The publication of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years ago in October 1922 was a watershed in modern poetry. James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in February that year, was similarly iconoclastic ...

Two classics, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses, published in the same year, 1922, turned out to be epochal in English literary culture. The former, speaking beyond the ...

One argument made by T.S. Eliot at the time was that the censorship of modernist books, including Ulysses, was based on a category mistake. Literature and pornography were mutually exclusive terms.