T. S. Eliot Foundation

TSE on philosophy: bit.ly/40Aa5Zl

The views of 30 year-old T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, published in The Egoist in 1919. Read the essay: tseliot.com/essays/traditi… #tseliot #poetry #poets #criticism

Happy World Book Day! While the final 3 poems in T, S Eliot's Four Quartets (1941) had all previously appeared in pamphlet form, Burnt Norton is a rare example of verse in a book unfurling backwards into pamphlethood *after* publication. #tseliot #worldbookday

A special #shelfie of novels from T. S. Eliot's library in celebration of #WorldBookDay The volumes include Gulliver's Travers, The House of Seven Gables, Maigret S'Amuse, and Don Quixote. #WorldBookDay2026

We are elated to announce that the great @johnhaffenden has agreed to be the inaugural speaker of the 2026 T. S. Eliot International Summer School. Learn more about him and how to hear him on opening night (4 July) in Oxford by visiting us at tseliotschool.com

'The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land’s edge also, the granite Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses Its hints of earlier and other creation: The starfish, the horseshoe crab, the whale’s backbone' — The Dry Salvages, 85 yrs old today

'Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.' — T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday

'I don’t know what a Goon Cat is, but he looks to me suspiciously like my old enemy the Tantamile Cat... all you can say is that he is sub-human. He has a yellow eye like an addled egg, and looks like a maneating tyger...' — TSE to Frank Morley #OTD 1940 #TheLettersofTSEliot

First look at the 2026 programme. It's definitely your year to join us in Oxford :)

Rory Kinnear is Wallace Stevens at the next @deadpoets_live How to Feel Everything: Why you Need Wallace Stevens 7pm, 11 & 13 February @WiltonMusicHall More info & tickets: deadpoets.live/event/wallace-…

Many congratulations to T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 winner Karen Solie!

'At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly.' Listen to Daniel Day Lewis read Journey of the Magi on the Feast of the Epiphany. tseliot.com/poetry/ariel-p… @FaberBooks

'We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.' Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965

'When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in a watery mirror A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.' — Little Gidding #Wintersolstice

On Sun 8 Feb, Marylebone Theatre is hosting a programme of music & readings from Four Quartets. From 1 to 28 February 2026, a selection of paintings by artist Jérémie Queyras, inspired by Four Quartets will be on display in the theatre foyer. More info: marylebonetheatre.com/productions/fo…

Do you know these lines from T. S. Eliot’s magical, haunting “Burnt Norton”? Read more with us at the Summer School in Oxford this summer, 4-12 July 2026! Scholarships available. tseliotschool.com @eliotfoundation @IntlTSEliotSoc @TSEliotSocUK

'...the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself from time to time...I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.' —8 Sep 1943 #writers #TheLettersofTSEliot

We're overjoyed to announce next summer's star-studded line-up of scholars. Join us at Merton College, University of Oxford, 4-12 July 2026, for an unforgettable week of poetry! @eliotfoundation @IntlTSEliotSoc

Learn more about the composition of ‘The Hollow Men’ and responses to the poem in our latest From the Archive blogpost: tseliot.com/foundation/thi…

'The eyes are not here  There are no eyes here  In this valley of dying stars  In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms [...] This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.' 100 years of T S Eliot's 'The Hollow Men' Published #OnThisDay in 1925