The Waste Land at 100
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
- Contact: Julian Murphet
- Email: julian.murphet@adelaide.edu.au
For 100 years, T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' has stood at the pinnacle of modern poetic achievement in the English language: by turns baffling, seducing, electrifying, alienating, and engaging generations of readers. What does it mean to read the poem today? How have changing critical fashions altered the reception of a work once considered essential? Who teaches it anymore? What aspects seem to have aged poorly; what ones well? Where is its influence being felt today? Over the course of the day, we will probe the lasting significance of a masterpiece still as controversial as it is unavoidable.
Session One 10-11:30
- Ann Vickery
- Andrew van der Vlies
- Benjamin Madden
Session Two 12:30-2:30
- Tamlyn Avery
- Maggie Tonkin
- Julian Murphet