News - 22 July 2009 - Writers say gimme shelter
Wed 22 Jul 2009 04:02:32 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |
Writers say gimme shelter
Vaguely echoing 80s rock band The Triffids’ associations with Peppermint Grove property The Cliffe and calls to preserve the 115-year-old wooden house, prominent literary figures in the UK such as poet Andrew Motion and playwright Alan Bennett are campaigning to preserve Nayland Rock shelter in Margate, Kent, where T.S. Eliot wrote much of his most famous poem, The Waste Land.
Apparently Eliot took to sitting in the seaside shelter, which dates from 1910, while recuperating from a nervous breakdown.
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