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The Waste Land is a love letter to Englishness
Whatever else TS Eliot s challenging masterpiece means, it captures the sound of a poet returning to his British roots
TS Eliot: Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew undid me
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I first encountered T S Eliot’s The Waste Land as an undergraduate. My A-level English syllabus had avoided modernist poetry, and all the extra reading I had done to prepare for my English degree – and give me the semblance of being well-read – focused on the classics of English verse and fiction. So when I embarked on Eliot, the shock was profound.