Frank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Lucas in 1957
Miraumont-sur-Ancre (March 1917), taken in the British advance of 25 Feb. 1917. The Official History mentions "a daring and resourceful reconnaissance on the crest south of Miraumont by Lt. F. L. Lucas, 7/Royal West Kent, on the afternoon of Feb. 22, conducted whilst British shrapnel was bursting behind him", which brought the first indication of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.
Lucas in 1914
The Fellows' Building, King's. Of King's Lucas wrote: "Never in my experience of half a lifetime has it declined for one moment from that tradition of humanism, tolerance, and freedom in which I believe it unsurpassed throughout the Universities of the world."
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins".
Title page of the first book edition (December 1922)
Vivienne Eliot in 1921
The blue plaque near the Nayland Rock shelter in Margate where Eliot wrote some of The Waste Land.
Ezra Pound, a major editor of the work
