Robert Crawford: Though I do understand why people often see—and hear—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” as inventing modern poetry in English, I think The Waste Land does so more comprehensively. It’s as if this poem can give anything—a cry, a list … Continue reading (LH) The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100