This week in our Poetry Reading Club we will continue our exploration of mid-twentieth-century poetry with a poem by one of the most important American poets from this era: TS Eliot. Eliot exploded onto the literary scene with the publication of his first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations (1917). Like William Carlos Williams,
“April,” wrote TS Eliot, “is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.” Eliot had his own reasons for taking such a dour view of the season which poets have traditionally celebrated for its associations with fertility and new life.
“The family reunion: a play” by TS Eliot “Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theater in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.” Extracted from Amazon. See also: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926694.The_Family_Reunion http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/ts-eliot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Reunion The selected titles are a sample of
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