David Morley (poet) of the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and of the 2013 Foyle Young Poets Prize. He was Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University and is now Professor. He also holds the Alliance Chair of Writing at Monash University, Melbourne. David Morley (poet) David Morley FRSL (born 16 March 1964) is an English poet, critic, anthologist, editor and ecologist. His best-selling textbook "The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing" has been translated into many languages. His major poetry collections "Scientific Papers", "The Invisible Kings", "Enchantment" and "The Gypsy and the Poet" are published by Carcanet Press.
T. S. Eliot And the writers of "Time" magazine were similarly baffled by a challenging poem like "The Waste Land". John Crowe Ransom wrote negative criticisms of Eliot's work but also had positive things to say. For instance, though Ransom negatively criticised "The Waste Land" for its "extreme disconnection", Ransom was not completely condemnatory of Eliot's work and admitted that Eliot was a talented poet. Addressing some of the common criticisms directed against "The Waste Land" at the time, Gilbert Seldes stated, "It seems at first sight remarkably disconnected and confused... [however] a closer view of the poem does more than illuminate the