The Guardian has recently published several articles about an art exhibition inspired by Eliot's poem "The Waste Land." Because the exhibition is in Margate, they're keen to quote a part that mentions the place. However, at least three articles in the paper misquote it, changing its meaning.
While trying bizarrely to reduce the poem, which has multiple voices, to a personal depiction of mental illness,
Jonathan McAloon claims: “'On Margate Sands,' he wrote, 'I can connect / Nothing wit...
Published on February 13, 2018 10:06