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Roundup: Waugh and Merton

—The Tablet has published a thoughtful article by Canadian author Mary Frances Coady about the relationship between Catholic writers Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Merton. This is entitled “The Odd Couple”. Here are some excerpts: In the early summer of 1948, … Continue reading

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Roundup: “The Waste Land” Centenary

–The centenary of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land has been marked in several print and broadcast media. The Washington Post notes the poem’s appearance in Brideshead Revisited: First published in the inaugural October 1922 issue of Eliot’s literary magazine, the Criterion, … Continue reading

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