Is Eliot a soloist, there all the time? Or a composer, silent himself among the sounds he elicits, none of them in itself original but common property? Denis Donoghue , Henry James Professor of Letters at New
York University, explores the territory of T.S. Eliot's poem with contributions from
A. ALVAREZ , DONALD DAVIE ,
CHRISTOPHER HOPE,
PATRICK GARLAND , LYNDALL GORDON ,
PRABHU GUPTARA. DAVID MOODY. PETER PORTER and ANNE RIDLER.
Extracts from The Waste Land read by Alec Guinness and T.S. Eliot.
Producer ROSEMARY HART
(Eliot 'Murder in the Cathedral' tomorrow on Radio 4 at 7. 45pm)