“The Waste Land” at 101

How is T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece holding up these days?

The first essay in Cynthia Ozick’s Fame and Folly is ‘T.S. Eliot at 101’, originally published in 1989. It’s a clear-eyed examination of the poet and his meteoric rise and fall in the literary world in the early and mid 20th century.

I like to think that Ozick published her essay on Eliot’s 101st birthday, rather than his 100th, for the same…