100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment
- Written by Luke Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education, the urbane...





