Voices

Jayme Stayer, S.J., is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. He is past president of the International T. S. Eliot Society, editor of Volume 5 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, and the author of Becoming T. S. Eliot (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
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Whenever I teach a seminar on T. S. Eliot’s work, I spend the first day of class on ‘Marina.’
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By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
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A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it as often as I can for my introductory poetry students.
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Waste Land.” The 433-line poem is important, but it’s not very user-friendly.