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In Focus: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, the poem of broken modern civilisation that seems more apt than ever

On the 100th anniversary of its publication, Julie Harding asks why T. S. Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, with its devastating vision of a broken modern civilisation, still resonates so strongly today.

On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing.

Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot crafted these short lines that form a part of his fractured epic The Waste Land in October 1921, as he sat in the inauspicious Nayland Rock Shelter (granted Grade II-listed status…

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