Composed between 1910 and 1911 and published in 1917, T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes” is a sequence of four short poems that capture bleak moments in city life. The settings are ⋯ Read the full article

T.S. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi,” first published in 1927, reimagines the Biblical visit of the three wise men to the newborn Christ. Written shortly after Eliot’s conv⋯ Read the full article

“Little Gidding,” published in 1942, is the fourth and final poem of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” Named after a small Anglican community founded in the seventeenth centu⋯ Read the full article

“The Dry Salvages,” published in 1941, forms the third movement of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” Its title alludes to a small cluster of rocks off the coast of Cape Ann, ⋯ Read the full article

“East Coker” is the second of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” Published in 1940, the poem’s title references a small Somerset village where Eliot’s ancestors lived, tying t⋯ Read the full article

“Burnt Norton” is the first of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” published between 1936 and 1942. These poems form Eliot’s culminating statement on time, eternity, and spirit⋯ Read the full article

Published in 1930, Ash Wednesday is T.S. Eliot’s first major poem after his conversion to Anglicanism. It represents a marked departure from the bleak spiritual landscape⋯ Read the full article

First published in 1925, “The Hollow Men” expands upon many of T.S. Eliot’s recurring themes: spiritual desolation, paralysis of will, and the difficulty of genuine human⋯ Read the full article

Originally published in 1922, T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” stands as a cornerstone of modernist poetry—an intricate collage of voices, literary references, and mythic al⋯ Read the full article

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (first published in 1915) is a hallmark of modernist poetry, characterized by its use of fragmented imagery, a stream-o⋯ Read the full article

Written in the twilight of his life, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” finds W.B. Yeats lamenting his inability to discover a fresh poetic theme. Confronted with creative e⋯ Read the full article

W.B. Yeats’s “September 1913” is a scathing commentary on what the poet perceives as Irish society’s descent into materialism and complacency. Written against the backdro⋯ Read the full article

W.B. Yeats composed “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” to commemorate the life and death of Robert Gregory—son of Yeats’s close friend and patron Lady Augusta Gregory. M⋯ Read the full article

W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Tower” was first published in 1928 and takes its name from Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower Yeats owned in County Galway. The work is structured in ⋯ Read the full article

In “A Prayer for My Daughter,” first published in 1919, W.B. Yeats reflects on his newborn daughter’s future, contemplating the turbulent modern world and how best she mi⋯ Read the full article