“April is the cruelest month…” T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
By Ohio Humanities • April 15, 2020
T.S. Eliot’s masterwork “The Waste Land” begins,
“April is the cruelest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.”
Listen to Eliot reading the poem in full.
