Discussion around T S Eliot today; The Waste Land, the validity of the ‘elitist’ criticism, his happiness, melancholy, guilt, marriages, and psychotherapy amongst other topics. Also Amy Lowell and H. D. On to Willa Cather’s My Antonia next week. We rattle through’em! Lovely listening to John Toft our tutor talking from such a long and dedicated experience of working in literature (which began some years before he was my wife’s tutor at Brighton College of Education in 1966-70) along with his interaction with the other members of the group, many of whom, it appears, have been studying with him for years.