Return to Eliotland

AN Wilson explores the life and work of TS Eliot From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets Wilson traces Eliots life story as it informs his greatest worksHe explores how Eliots realisation that he and Vivien were fundamentally incompatible influenced The Waste Land and examines how Eliots subsequent conversion to Anglicanism coloured his later works Wilson concludes his journey by visiting some of the key locations around which the poet structured his final masterpiece Four Quartets Eliots poetry is widely regarded as complex and difficult it takes on weighty ideas of time memory faith and belief themes which Wilson argues have as much relevance today as during the poets lifetime And whilst hailing his genius Wilson does not shy away from confronting the discomforting and dark side of his work the poems now widely regarded as antiSemitic