Eliot’s ‘wretched old’ typewriter looms large in an analysis of The Waste Land

But does Matthew Hollis understand the poem as well he understands the manual action of a Corona?

From magazine issue: 10 December 2022

T.S. Eliot. [Getty Images]

issue 10 December 2022

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