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Josh Hack reminisces on T.S Eliots celebrated poem on its centenary

T.S. Eliot's fame and his Nobel Prize in literature owe a debt to an editor working in a repurposed Chicago mansion, Harriet Monroe.

Last modified on Sat 1 May 2021 04.46 EDT The composer Elaine Hugh-Jones, who has died aged 93, made a striking contribution to English song. In her survey New Vocal Repertory (vol 1, 1986), the soprano Jane Manning wrote of the pleasure of discovering a composer with a complete mastery of voice and piano writing: “Although they are firmly based on a traditional musical style – that of English post-Romantic – the songs are not in the least derivative [but show] a wonderful assurance and f...

The first poetry book I ever bought was R.A.K. Mason’s Collected Poems, which opens with his debut collection The Beggar. The collected edition was published in 1962, and I got it for half price (eight shillings and sixpence!) twelve months later. I was sixteen, in my final year at high school. There was an introduction by Allen Curnow, declaring Mason ‘his country’s first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet’. This may be why I still have, somewhere at the back of my head, the n...