Arts chiefs have sparked outrage by giving taxpayers' money to a profitable publisher while withdrawing funding from a cash-strapped charity devoted to poetry
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Waste Land is a well-made and often uplifting documentary that refuses to get angry yet still manages to point out that things aren't as they should be for a great many... more
Humming with sexual electricity, peopled by intellectuals and movie stars, the London library and the British Library are the capital's most unlikely hotspots - and each has its own ardent fans... more
Fiona Shaw’s interpretation in The Waste Land, is bold, sharp and detailed, contemplative yet also feverishly dramatic, just occasionally tipping over into pealing hyperbole... more
It was a young and tragic marriage. T.S. Eliot's first wife Vivien Haigh-Wood suffered from a severe hormonal illness that required constant medical treatment, exacerbating an already hysterical nature... more
Language "caught alive" is an intoxicating experience in all poetry - the sound is "the gold in the ore", said Robert Frost - and most particularly so with the poems of TS Eliot... more
"Look," the novelist standing next to the buffet said, pointing down the room at the new winner of the 2008 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. "He's on his third helping." He sniggered. "That's poets for you."... more
"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse," said WB Yeats. "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall," judged Cyril Connolly. "Distracted from distraction by distraction," wrote TS Eliot. Boy, oh boy, did they have a handle on the freelance life.... more
The night before last I got home at midnight after seeing the Donmar's magnificent production of TS Eliot's The Family Reunion to be confronted by ... flood, pestilence and woe... more
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s back catalogue of music and shows, including The Sound of Music and Annie Get Your Gun, are up for sale with a likely price tag of at least $200 million (£112.8 million).... more
Had Wyndham Lewis left writing alone and concentrated on his art, he could have become one of the most influential artists this country has ever produced.... more
Book now for highlights including Oz prequel Wicked, Derek Jacobi's brilliant performance in A Voyage Round My Father and a last chance to see Rabbit.... more
Tom and Viv, a tragi-comedy of pre-war manners and morals, has not lost its high-level impact, even two decades after its London premiere, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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