This work is a revised excerpt from my Bachelor’s thesis, in which I focused on Anna Akhmatova’s reception in the UK and, as a second step, on the impact of English Literature on Akhmatova’s poetry. In this article I have decided to investigate the parallelisms and similarities between Akhmatova’s Poem without a Hero and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Four Quartets. What I try to show is that the poem by Akhmatova shares important and crucial features with Eliot’s landmark works. In order to strengthen my argumentation, I take into consideration a number of relevant critical studies on these aspects.…
