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T. S. Eliot was an influential writer in both the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. T. S. Eliot’s work should be included in an American Literature Anthology because his book of poems, The Waste Land, reshaped the post World War I literature and gained for him a lasting place among Twentieth Century writers. Andrew Lloyd Webber used Eliot’s poem, “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” extensively in the major Broadway musical Cats, and Eliot was granted many awards and contributed to literature as we know it today. These aspects show how greatly T. S. Eliot affected literature. ... Eliot describes his poems in one of his footnotes:
“Tiresias, although a mere spectator and not indeed a ‘character,’ is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest. ...
The poem’s title, coming from the medieval Grail Quest, holds a clue as told by Eliot: “The questing reader must ask the right question of the Fisher King
(who merges into Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes and, indeed, into the poet)” (Magill, 610).
Approximate Word count = 811
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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