Eliot, Hughes, and Problems of Poetic Difficulty

By Will Staveley

Author Biography:

Will Staveley is a final year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying English Literature.

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This essay situates an argument about how poetic difficulty can manifest in more than just modernist poetry like Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’. The article delves into the context provided within, and behind, Eliot’s and Hughes’ poetry and how the poet’s sociopolitical environment, particularly Hughes’, informed their work.