Old Thoughts–David Jones & Heart of Darkness

December 7, 2008 at 1:03 pm (Critical Writing, Prose, Reading)

Another old and somewhat flung together essay that will probably never see revision, this brief analysis focuses on a definition of Modernism given by David Jones in a response to a claim about his work. The response was titled “Past and Present” and was written in March of 1953. This quick write-up is especially rough.
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Old Thoughts–The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

December 7, 2008 at 3:49 am (Critical Writing, Poetry, Prose, Reading)

This is a bit old, but I thought there were some good thoughts in it, so I decided to go ahead and post it. It’s a very quickly written draft of an analysis of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.”
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