These new volumes bring together selections from TS Eliot’s poetry, plays, and critical essays

These new volumes bring together selections from TS Eliot’s poetry, plays, and critical essays

[ad_1] To the Indians who Died in Africa A man’s destination is his own village,His own fire, and his wife’s cooking;To sit in front of his own door at sunsetAnd see his grandson, and his neighbour’s grandsonPlaying in the dust together. Scarred but secure, he has many memoriesWhich return at the hour of conversation,(The warm … Read more

WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

WG Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

[ad_1] “Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one. It included both teaching … Read more