Kaplan offers a bleak vision of a world in permanent political upheaval. Taking his title from T. S. Eliot’s famous poem about civilizational breakdown in the wake of World War I, Kaplan sees the ...

met with Ezra Pound; Eliot claimed Pound reduced poem by "about half its size"; Pound and Eliot often read one another's work (see letters) · poem first pub. in The Criterion (U.K.) and The Dial (U.S.

His marriage to Vivienne brought the state of mind, he said, from which came one of his most famous poems, The Waste Land He ... who was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in 1888, said the pair had ...