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T. S. Eliot

1888–1965

Poet of The Waste Land

April is the cruellest month because something stirs, not because nothing does. He became a British subject and a churchman and kept revising the earlier desolation. The whimper at the end of The Hollow Men is a refusal of grand finales.

In the canon

  1. April is the cruellest month.The Waste Land
  2. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.The Hollow Men

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