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.
With extracts from
The Waste Land read by ALEC GUINNESS and T. S. ELIOT.
Producer ROSEMARY HART (R)