Sarah's Reviews > Selected Poems

I’ll admit that I found this a challenging read - I’m a good 25 years out of practice in critical poetry reading. To be honest, I’ll probably give this a higher rating after further reading and mulling over the contents. I found that I experienced brief periods of illumination, when I felt I was getting to grips with the material - for example the echoes of the modern digital age in the “Choruses from the Rock” - but then found myself plunged back into the mire of confusion. Throughout, I had the sense that I was missing something extraordinary. While I consider myself to have had a reasonably good “liberal education” - I have a working knowledge of Greek myth, the old and New Testament and the works of Shakespeare - I think I’d be lucky if I picked up more than 10% of Eliot’s references. Nevertheless, a quality read, and I do intend to attempt some of these works again in due course.