Winter 1934

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was one of the masters of modern British prose and satire. His notable works include the novels Brideshead Revisited, Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall, and Scoop.

T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) authored dozens of books of criticism and poetry, most famously Four Quartets (Harcourt, Brace, 1943), The Waste Land (Boni & Liveright, 1922), and Prufrock, and Other Observations (Egoist, 1917). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963. Eliot’s essays on poetry, such as “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” are considered classics of modernist poetry theory.