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'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 4's T.S. Eliot quote. explained

'Rick and Morty' Season 6, Episode 4 explores the concept of a "Night Family," something that is uncannily similar to Apple TV+'s 'Severance.'

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Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

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The week in audio: Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast); Teach Me a Lesson; Schools Apart and more

Shows on education range from the warmly comic to the thoughtfully investigative, while TS Eliot’s The Waste Land gets a centenary revival

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The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

The Conversation

Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the ethical responsibilities of the novelist

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

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Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing

Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts

The Guardian - AU

John Hughes: I am not a plagiarist – and here’s why

Every artist takes. What else do we do but endlessly recycle stories? It’s been going on since the ancient Greek tragedians

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Parts of John Hughes’ novel The Dogs copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina

Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature

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Benediction, from director Terence Davies, examines the life and secret affairs of queer English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

ABC News

In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

The Conversation

The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen

The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy

The Guardian - UK

Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review

From the grief of loss to the despair of impotence and the misery of work, the Scandinavian master wallows gloriously in pain, filling the soul with the ecstatic sorrow of his colours

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Can we defeat democracy's enemies?

Confronting Putin isn't about sanctions or military strategy. It's about facing what we did to make him possible

Salon

‘Grandfather of Goth’: fans campaign for US stamp honoring Edward Gorey

Gorey’s ‘sinister whimsy’ has influenced other oddball creatives including Lemony Snicket and Tim Burton

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Critical Revolutionaries by Terry Eagleton review – five critics who changed the way we read

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others

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TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times

A century on, modernist poem’s visions of a desiccated landscape still resonate today

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Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems

Letters: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has been getting a lot of media coverage, but there is another poet whose work is still relevant, writes Max Hunt

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Still living and partly living with TS Eliot

Brief letters: Poetic licence | Crossed wires | Clueless about Covid | Muting The Archers | Brexit walkabout

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The Guardian view on TS Eliot’s modernism: between high and low culture

Editorial: What the poet found in the most popular music hall artiste of his time shines a light on a misunderstood genius and the time he lived in

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From Pet Shop Boy to nostalgic folkie: Neil Tennant plays guitar

The synthpop maestro used lockdown to revisit folk songs he’d written in the 1970s, inspired by whichever chord he’d learned that day

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Ed Sheeran has a plan to tackle claims of plagiarism

Fresh from his legal success, the singer now films his creative process in the studio

The Guardian - UK

Get real: Real Madrid aren’t really Spanish

Letters: Denationalised football clubs | Toilet seats: up or down? | The damage hard work does to bodies | TS Eliot anagram

Evening Standard

Fragments festival: Your guide to this weekend’s celebration of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land

The ambitious festival, marking 100 years of the epic poem, takes in everything from live readings to sea shanties

The Guardian - UK

From Dreamland to The Waste Land

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12 destinations marking the arrival of modernist Britain

In the centennial year of modernism, we visit visionary places where artists, engineers and architects imagined the future

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