Late in his life, T.S. Eliot took to writing plays in verse. I don’t know why; he was never going to be a great playwright. But, I guess when you are famous, you can do whatever you want. A couple of his plays have some amazing bits in them. Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party both work well if you think of them as verse in play form. That is entirely different from being great plays, though. A couple of his plays are not good verse or play, containing rather a few scattered … [Read more...] about A Second-Rate Potter