T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Lois Untermeyer, in Modern American Poetry, says "Ash Wednesday" is perhaps T. S. Eliot's most perfect poem. It's perfect for beginning a season contemplating both speech and silence. Eliot is best known for "his brooding masterpiece" The Waste Land, the cryptic condemnation of desiccated, fruitless modernism. In this, Fr. George Rutler … Continue reading T.S. Eliot: There Is Not Enough Silence