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Jayme Stayer, S.J., is a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. This academic year, he is Visiting Fellow in Religion and Literature at Campion Hall, Oxford University. He is past president of the International T. S. Eliot Society, editor of Volume 5 of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, and the author of Becoming T. S. Eliot (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).
 

The birthplace and home from 1855–1886 of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson (DenisTangneyJr/iStock)
Arts & CulturePoetry
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it as often as I can for my introductory poetry students. 
T. S. Eliot (photo: Wikimedia)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jayme Stayer, S.J.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Waste Land.” The 433-line poem is important, but it’s not very user-friendly.