He didn’t. He was a fad of high school English teachers in 2000-2005, so now a handful of 30-somethings think he was some kind of important figure. Silly.
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> He didn’t. He was a fad of high school English teachers in 2000-2005
"The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922"
It’s hot takes like this that make me come to HN to read ppl’s opinions on literary figures. It’s as if the Nebraska Farm Report had a society weddings page.
Talking about 20th century critics and not mentioning Elliot is like talking about pop music in 1960s Hamburg and failing to mention the Beatles.
