Madison Cawein

1865 - 1914

Madison Cawein, nicknamed the "Keats of Kentucky," published a poem entitled "The Waste Land," which supposedly inspired T. S. Eliot's work of with the same name.

Photo: Madison Cawein, New York Public Library, public domain

Composers who set Cawein's TEXTS (entered to date)
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