Tag Archives: "East Coker"

The Bloody Flesh Our Only Food

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2018

I share a Good Friday poem by T. S. Eliot and a Passover poem by Norman Finkelstein.

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T. S. Eliot, Hope for the Suicidal

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2017

In a guest post, novelist Lauren B. Davis draws on Eliot’s “Waste Land” and “Four Quartets” to deal with the suicides of her two brothers and find a way forward.

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Was T. S. Eliot a Key to Hillary’s Success?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 8, 2016

As a college student at Wellesley in 1969, Hillary Clinton made multiple references to T. E. Eliot’s “East Coker.” Now as we watch her become the presumptive Democratic nominee, we can see how Eliot has helped her along the way.

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