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• Because I’m in the Mood for T.S. Eliot

  
  A Little Thinking — Authority: 128
  The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre – To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the ...
  23 hours ago

• Hollow cake

  
  I-YOUniverse — Authority: 118
  I tried my baking skills the other day. I had an orange-cranberry muffin mix, which called for an added cup of water. Flush with the success of earlier efforts, I added a protein booster whey powder, a couple eggs, and two tablespoons of oil. After 25 minutes in the oven, the knife came out clean. We cut the cake ...
  1 day ago

• Beating in the void

  
  Eyewear — Authority: 116
  Poets are sensitive creatures... Matthew Arnold described Shelley as an ineffectual archangel... beating in the void his luminous wings in vain. A poet too delicate for this world - as Jay-Z says, for this hard knock life. As Eliot s recent letters - just-published - remind us, even the most classical minds ...
  2 days ago

• TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land in this Margate shelter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  But can our writer find poetic inspiration there too? "I dont know much about that sort of thing, Im afraid," says the woman at the Nayland Rock hotel. "I should know about Margates history, but I dont." I am in Kent looking for the seaside shelter where, in 1921, recuperating from a nervous breakdown, TS Eliot had ...
  3 days ago

• Timothy Bateson obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  British character actor whose role in Waiting for Godot led to more than 50 years on stage, television and film Timothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, was a character actor of boundless versatility and great warmth of personality who will always be remembered for playing Lucky in the controversial British premiere ...
  4 days ago

• Moonshine

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 770
  William Tyndale once ridiculed the poor logic of a 16 th Century blowhard by writing that, “the proof of his whole conclusion…hangeth by moonshine.” Tyndale of course, ultimately became a victim of moonshine when he was condemned as a heretic and strangled by real rope – and burned as well – for ...
  4 days ago

• Review of Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Critical Writings

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 530
  Photo: NYTimes. My review of Collected Critical Writings by Geoffrey Hill (Hardcover, $49.95 Oxford University Press 2008) is now up at The Critical Flame. Here’s how it starts:"Reading Geoffrey Hill’s Collected Critical Writings feels a lot like what it might to step into a graduate seminar in 19th and 20th ...
  1 week ago

• Notes For November 4th, 2009

  
  The INTERNET WRITING WORKSHOP — Authority: 125
  This Day In Writing History On November 4th, 1948, the famous poet and playwright T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in literature. Eliot was born in America, but emigrated to England in 1914 at the age of 25. He would later become a naturalized British subject. Though Eliot is probably most famous today for his ...
  1 week ago

• Max Bemis: Man of Faith

  
  thepaintedman.com — Authority: 122
  Max Bemis, the lead singer of the alternative rock act Say Anything, spends the duration of his Say Anything’s most recent release demonstrating maturation, growth, and a rediscovered spirituality through primarily autobiographical lyrics about his journey. Like his previous albums, Max continues to focus on ...
  1 week ago

• Radio Free Threedonia XXIII — Motor City Shaker

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 493
  Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, one of the fast-rising stars of the Republican party , graciously stops by RF3D this week, featuring guest panelist Stage Right from Big Hollywood. In addition to sharing the most concisely articulate battle-plans for the GOP in the 21st century, Rep. McCotter — who seems as ...
  1 week ago

• Volume of letters defy TS Eliot’s cruel husband reputation

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, Nov 1 (ANI): A series of letters has debunked the myth surrounding poet TS Eliot’s reputation as an uncaring and cruel husband.The letters mostly written by and to Eliot during the 1920s have revealed the American-born poet was often deeply concerned about his wife, Vivien’s severe ill-health.He was so ...
  1 week ago

• TS Eliot wasted after Waste land

  
  celestialrocKs.com — Authority: 138
  TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land might have given him international stardom but a year after it was published he was broke, and on the verge of a breakdown.A series of newly published letters have revealed that his personal life had turned into a nightmare despite winning accolades for his literary work. He was forced ...
  1 week ago

• everything is contained in now

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Time present and time past. Are both present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all the time is eternally present All time is unreedemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to ...
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• TS Eliot penniless, tired a year after ‘Waste Land’ poem

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, Oct 31 (ANI): TS Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’ might have given him international stardom but a year after it was published he was broke, and on the verge of a breakdown.A series of newly published letters have revealed that his personal life had turned into a nightmare despite winning accolades for his ...
  1 week ago

• TS Eliot broke and exhausted one year after Waste Land

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  TS Eliots poem The Waste Land may have made him an international literary star but 12 months after it was published he was penniless exhausted and on the verge of a breakdown.
  1 week ago

• Trial and Error Symphony (a poem of sorts)

  
  Marking Time — Authority: 103
  Trial-and-Error Symphony          by Mark Nielsen, Oct. 28, 2009 Composing. Caring. Not caring. Never minding the bad notes. Changing them later. Embracing the eraser. A potter and a pot. Creating an earthen vessel. Made of magic mud . A cracked pitcher, poured out. A cup who runneth over. Sweet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Event at British Library, London, October 26, 2PM

  
  Serge the Concierge — Authority: 136
  In less than an hour (at 2PM London Time) the British Library is hosting an event for children of all ages celebrating the 2009 edition of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. The poems dedicated to our furry friends are unchanged from the 1939 original. Some of them inspired the musical Cats. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot – quotes

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 144
  I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. ~ in Murder In the Cathedral We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ~ in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The TS Eliot Prize

  
  Polyolbion — Authority: 114
  The shortlist has been announced, and The Guardian ran a lengthy piece about the runners and riders here . They seem to have spread the net a bit further than the Forward did (although their shortlist is twice as long, to be fair), but I think Simon Armitage might be slightly overstating the case when he says ...
  3 weeks ago

• A No-Brainer

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 423
    I’m not a straw man; … they make me burp.   note: scarecrows are for scaredy cats … or maybe not.  (this one just gets more confusing if you really think about it … but you probably don’t want to delve too deep into this … delving is too much like needlelessly looking in haystacks) ...
  3 weeks ago

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