Shantih, Shantih, Shantih - The Peace that Passeth all Understanding
Thomas Stearns Eliot, a 1948 Nobel Laureate, well known for his ground-breaking 20th century poetry of dense and allusion-heavy poems, especially so The Waste Land, is also the most widely talked about poets of literary history. For Eliot, the wasteland symbolizes that area of human life where men... Sign in to see full entry.