General knowledge question

In which poem does T.S. Eliot refer to April as 'the cruellest month'?

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The Waste Land

'The Waste Land' is a landmark modernist poem published in 1922, and it opens with the line about April being the cruellest month.

This question appeared in the Wizzy Quiz round for Monday 24 August 2026.

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