The Wasteland: A Biography of a Poem

[The Karate Kid Part 2]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/o...asterpiece

As someone who started writing poetry at age 16 after reading a biography of a poet (Dylan Thomas), and who has always found reading about poets' lives rewarding, I'm really looking forward to this book, to be published in December in the U.S.

I came to appreciate Eliot fairly late in life (in my 40s), but he is now someone I re-read regularly.

Just an FYI about the book.

Thanks for the link. 
It's funny, I started reading poetry around the same age (though a bit younger. Maybe 13 or 14) and the first 3 books I bought were Selected Poems of William Blake, Under Milk Wood (not a poetry book, of course), and a collection of Dylan Thomas poetry. I've ripped off Altarwise by Owl-light in my writing more than I'd care to admit.