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Inspiring quote of the day by T. S. Eliot: 'Where is the Life we have lost in...' - powerful life lessons on information, knowledge and wisdom by The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock poet

T. S. Eliot inspirational quote today: T. S. Eliot's quote questions the loss of life and wisdom in modern living. He distinguished between information, knowledge, and true wisdom gained through reflection. The poet's message remains relevant in today's fast-paced digital information age.

The Economic Times · Sep 16

Italian court convicts 12 CasaPound members for attempting to revive fascist party

CasaPound takes its name from Ezra Pound, the US modernist poet who collaborated with Fascist Italy during World War II. The group was founded in December 2003 when activists occupied a state-owned building in Rome's Esquilino district.

Euronews · Feb 13

From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2025

Bernard Kops obituary

Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review - guided walk through loneliness and despair

OF course January is the cruellest month. As an old boss of mine used to say: “The grim reaper is on the downstroke JDQ.” Covid and influenza…

The National (Scotland) · Jan 8, 2023

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece

Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022

Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life

A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2022

Women, water and words

"There's so much beauty in the natural world and in human beings, and I felt a great urge to connect and communicate about that."

Newcastle Herald · Apr 16, 2022

Sebastian Barry: ‘I’m still not over Oliver Twist’

The writer on growing up with Puffin books, his changing attitude to Conrad, and the punk sensibility of Elizabeth Bowen

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2022