TS Eliot

Image lines that emerge from Jehst's flow like molten commentary, as with other artists from MFDoom to the Wu Tang Clan, are not lessened as poetics by the number of expletives or by the connective tissue rhymes surrounding them, they contain meanings to meditate on time and time again, just like TS Eliot's fragments emerging from 'The Wasteland.'

Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

Image lines that emerge from Jehst's flow like molten commentary, as with other artists from MFDoom to the Wu Tang Clan, are not lessened as poetics by the number of expletives or by the connective tissue rhymes surrounding them, they contain meanings to meditate on time and time again, just like TS Eliot's fragments emerging from 'The Wasteland.'

Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

I was there to research a journey for book lovers I am planning to lead next Spring, taking a small group to the landscapes that inspired Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, TS Eliot, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare.

Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth Roger Housden 2011

And cartoons, especially Tom and Jerry, like to make cats look murderously violent, which may be how you feel after seeing the Lloyd Webber musical Cats, inspired by TS Eliot's poems in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

Culture flash: cats 2011

TS Eliot, who would have experienced many a pea-souper, echoes Dickens's sense of fog as invader in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

Culture flash: fog 2011

It was the timeless quality of a pretty West Country village that persuaded the poet TS Eliot to immortalise it in his Nobel award-winning Four Quartets.

East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion 2011

Image lines that emerge from Jehst's flow like molten commentary, as with other artists from MFDoom to the Wu Tang Clan, are not lessened as poetics by the number of expletives or by the connective tissue rhymes surrounding them, they contain meanings to meditate on time and time again, just like TS Eliot's fragments emerging from 'The Wasteland.'

Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

TS Eliot was right when he said: Birth, and copulation, and death.

Why we can't get enough of childbirth on TV 2012

Image lines that emerge from Jehst's flow like molten commentary, as with other artists from MFDoom to the Wu Tang Clan, are not lessened as poetics by the number of expletives or by the connective tissue rhymes surrounding them, they contain meanings to meditate on time and time again, just like TS Eliot's fragments emerging from 'The Wasteland.'

Rick Holland: Top 10 Aural and Poetic Delights Rick Holland 2011

Graham is a pathetically, often hilariously, unreliable guide; a semi-tragic figure who brings to mind TS Eliot's J Alfred Prufrock in his nervous digressions – though, to begin with at least, he displays considerably less self-knowledge than Eliot's hero.

Debut fiction roundup – reviews 2011