The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century
Saturday 25 October 2025
Northeastern University, London
Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), the modernist long poem continues to be the focus of critical response and varied definitions. Recent work on the genre in its historical context by Oliver Tearle (2019), Sean Pryor (2021) and others, as well as a recent conference (Paris, 2024) on the topic, indicates fresh attention to the modernist long poem, on which we aim to build at this event.