The Waste Land and Modernity
26 Feb, 2009
800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Steve Connor and Lawrence Rainey, discuss TS Eliot’s seminal poem The Waste Land and its ambivalence to the modern world of technology, democracy and capitalism that was being forged around it.
Guests
- Steve Connor
3 episodes
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Lawrence Rainey No other episodes
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