Choruses from “The Rock”

Published in 1934, T.S. Eliot's Choruses from "The Rock" represents the choruses that Eliot wrote for The Rock, a verse pageant-play.Eliot’s contributions to the play focus on the Church’s history, some aspects of its theology, its place in the modern world, and speculation as to what the future holds. This poem was also published and is now often read within The Waste Land and Other Poems. T.S. Elliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry."In ten years' time," wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), "Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English." In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price "for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry."