“In Eliot the very images and the sound of the words—even when we do not know precisely why he has chosen them—are charged with a strange poignancy . . . . And sometimes we feel that he is speaking not only for a personal distress, but for the starvation of a whole civilization.”
Edmund Wilson
Yes – Eliot’s poetry is difficult, but that is what makes him an excellent author for a LitSalon study. His poems contain vivid images and memorable language; they challenge us to wrestle with questions that still matter today.