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Jayme Stayer, S.J.

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).
 

Articles by Jayme Stayer, S.J.
Arts & CulturePoetry
T. S. Eliot can be intimidating. You should still read his poem ‘Marina.’
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
Whenever I teach a seminar on T. S. Eliot’s work, I spend the first day of class on ‘Marina.’
The birthplace and home from 1855–1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson (DenisTangneyJr/iStock)
Arts & CulturePoetry
The Emily Dickinson poem about love that you should read
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Why you should read Richard Wilbur’s ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
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. 
T. S. Eliot (photo: Wikimedia)
Arts & CultureIdeas
‘The Waste Land’ at 100: T.S. Eliot’s monument to despair — with a few laughs thrown in
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
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.