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Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in Europe. In this program, Professor Frank Kermode, of Cambridge University; Eliot biographer Peter Ackroyd; and poets Sir Stephen Spender and Craig Raine examine the complex nature of Eliot’s influential poem, analyze its appeal, and trace the reasons why it became one of the best-known emblems of the 20th century.

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This is part of the Ten Great Writers of the Modern World series:
Ten Great Writers Seminar: youtu.be/yiJC_piyJJI
Franz Kafka: youtu.be/1t-GbIbVHCI
Fyodor Dostoevksy: youtu.be/7ZlB2t_fKkE
Henrik Ibsen: youtu.be/U2Glw642vWM
James Joyce: youtu.be/Ob3NWUtCCJI
Luigi Pirandello: youtu.be/YB2yae1t5IY
T.S. Eliot: youtu.be/UoEHySQ9Gmo
Joseph Conrad: youtu.be/yjq19I3U8H8
Virginia Woolf: youtu.be/jYySvYKGong
Thomas Mann: youtu.be/we0Ubj1Qtq0