This is the way the world ends: The Hollow Men at 100
READ‘This volume contains nothing new except a set of poems called ‘The Hollow Men’, which represents an even more advanced stage of the condition of demoralization already given expression in The Waste Land; the last of these poems — the disconnected thoughts of a man lying awake at night — consists merely of the barest statement of a melancholy self-analysis mixed with a fragment of the Lord’s Prayer and a morose parody of ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’.
The tenth annual T. S. Eliot Lecture at the Abbey Theater, Dublin will be delivered by Colm Tóibín.
Next month the London Review of Books will host an event to mark the 100th anniversary of T. S Eliot entering the world of publishing.
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Richard Harries is to give the T. S. Eliot Society’s Annual Lecture this year. The lecture, titled Eliot, Auden and the enjoyment of life, will be given at Newnham College, Cambridge on Thursday 24th October at 5:30pm, and will be followed by a drinks reception.
The T. S. Eliot Estate in association with the 